Quote#Wisdom
I say, I am glad, that America has declared herself independent of…
Quote byJosiah Tucker · 1713–1799
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Four Letters on Important National Subjects, Addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Shelburne, His Majesty's First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (1783), pp. 7–8.
English (original)
I say, I am glad, that America has declared herself independent of us, though for Reasons very opposite to theirs. America, I have proved beyond the Possibility of a Confutation, ever was a Millstone hanging about the Neck of this Country, to weigh it down: And as we ourselves had not the Wisdom to cut the Rope, and to let the Burthen fall off, the Americans have kindly done it for us.
— Josiah Tucker
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