Quote#Self
The average Briton, as well as honorable and right honorable members…
Quote byCarl Lotus Becker · 1873–1945
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Eve of the Revolution (1918).
English (original)
The average Briton, as well as honorable and right honorable members of the House, had known that England possessed colonies and had understood that colonies, as a matter of course, existed to supply him with sugar and rice, indigo and tobacco, and in return to buy at a good price whatever he might himself wish to sell.
— Carl Lotus Becker
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