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George Grenville
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“I told His Majesty that I came into his service to preserve the constitution of my country, and to prevent any undue and unwarrantable force being put upon the Crown; that upon these principles I should continue to act, and would endeavour, as far as I was able, to assist the King in the difficulties he lay under; but that the success of these endeavours must depend upon the King himself, and upon the cordial union of all such as were attached to his service.”
George Grenville first seen 1763 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lord Strange (3 September 1763), quoted in The Grenville Papers: Being The Correspondence of Richard Grenville Earl Temple, K.G., and The Right Hon. George Grenville, Their Friends and Contemporaries, Vol. II,…
“Ungrateful people of America! Bounties have been extended to them. When I had the honour of serving the crown, while you yourselves were loaded with an enormous debt, you have given bounties on their lumber, on their iron, their hemp, and many other articles. You have relaxed, in their favour, the Act of Navigation, that palladium of the British commerce; and yet I have been abused in all the public papers as an enemy to the trade of America.”
George Grenville first seen 1765 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (14 January 1766), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XVI. A. D. 1765–1771 (1813), column 102
“A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.”
George Grenville first seen 1765 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons against the motion for expelling John Wilkes (3 February 1769), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XVI. A. D. 1765–1771 (1813),…
“When I proposed to tax America, I asked the House, if any gentleman would object to the right; I repeatedly asked it, and no man would attempt to deny it. Protection and obedience are reciprocal. Great Britain protects America; America is bound to yield obedience. If not, tell me when the Americans were emancipated? When they want the protection of this kingdom, they are always very ready to ask it. That protection has always been afforded them in the most full and ample manner. The nation has run itself into an immense debt to give them their protection; and now they are called upon to contribute a small share towards the public expence, an expence arising from themselves, they renounce your authority, insult your officers, and break out, I might almost say, into open rebellion. The seditious spirit of the colonies owes its birth to the factions in this House.”
George Grenville first seen 1765 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (14 January 1766), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XVI. A. D. 1765–1771 (1813), column 102