Quote#Nature
Situated as we are between the old world and the new, and between the…
Quote byWilliam Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne · 1737–1805
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in the House of Lords (17 February 1783), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XXIII. Comprising the Period from the Tenth of May 1782, to the First of December 1783 (1814), columns 409-410.
English (original)
Situated as we are between the old world and the new, and between the southern and northern Europe, all that we ought to covet upon earth is free trade, and fair equality. With more industry, with more enterprize, with more capital than any trading nation upon earth, it ought to be our constant cry, let every market be open, let us meet our rivals fairly, and we ask no more.
— William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
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