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Jonathan Shipley
6 quotes
“The true art of government consists in not governing too much.”
Jonathan Shipley (1713–1788) first seen 1454 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Sermon Preached Before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1773), p. 11; also in the Maryland Gazette, no. 1454 (22 July 1773), p. 1
“It has always been a most arduous task to govern distant provinces, with even a tolerable appearance of justice.”
Jonathan Shipley (1713–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Arbitrary taxation is plunder authorized by law.”
Jonathan Shipley (1713–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of governing provinces and colonies by force is visionary and chimerical. The experiment has often been tried, and it has never succeeded. It ends infallibly in the ruin of one country or the other.”
Jonathan Shipley (1713–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people are certainly the best judges whether they are well governed; and the Crown can have no rights inconsistent with the happiness of the people.”
Jonathan Shipley (1713–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I look upon North America as the only great nursery of freemen left on the face of the earth.”
Jonathan Shipley (1713–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source