Categoría: Discursos
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On moving his resolutions for Conciliation with the colonies
I hope, Sir, that notwithstanding the austerity of the Chair, your good nature will incline you to some degree of indulgence towards human frailty. You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclined to superstition. As I came into the…
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Give me liberty or give me death
MR. PRESIDENT: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as…
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Removing troops from Boston
MY LORDS–After more than six weeks’ possession of the papers now before you, on a subject so momentous, at a time when the fate of this nation hangs on every hour, the ministry have at length condescended to submit to the consideration of this House, intelligence from America with which your Lordships and the public…
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Speech to Continental Congress
If we sincerely mean to accommodate the difference between the two countries, and to establish their union on more firm and constitutional principles, we must take into consideration a number of facts which led the Parliament to pass the acts complained of, since the year 1763, and the real state of the Colonies. A clear…
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Quartering british troops in Boston
MY LORDS,–The unfavorable state of health under which I have long labored, could not prevent me from laying before your Lordships my thoughts on the bill now upon the table, and on the American affairs in general. If we take a transient view of those motives which induced the ancestors of our fellow-subjects in America…
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Candidus. Organizing Assemblies of the People
Perhaps no measure that has been taken by the Town of Boston during our present Struggles for Liberty, has thwarted the designs of our enemies more than their Votes and Proceedings on the 20th of November last.1 If we take a Retrospect of two or three Years past, we shall find that what our “Pretended…
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The right of taxing America
MR. SPEAKER,–I came to town but to-day. I was a stranger to the tenor of his Majesty’s speech, and the proposed address, till I heard them read in this House. Unconnected and unconsulted, I have not the means of information. I am fearful of offending through mistake, and therefore beg to be indulged with a…
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The Defence Of Weaker States
My Lords, I cannot agree with the noble duke, that nothing less than an immediate attack upon the honour or interest of this nation can authorize us to interpose in defence of weaker states, and in stopping the enterprises of an ambitious neighbour. Whenever that narrow, selfish policy has prevailed in our councils, we have…
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Defense of the American Colonies
Gentlemen, Sir, I have been charged with giving birth to sedition in America. They have spoken their sentiments with freedom against this unhappy act, and that freedom has become their crime. Sorry I am to hear the liberty of speech in this House, imputed as a crime. No gentleman ought to be afraid to exercise…
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Discurso al Parlamento de París
Es sólo en mi persona donde reside el poder soberano, cuyo carácter propio es el espíritu de consejo, de justicia y de razón; es a mí a quien deben mis cortesanos su existencia y su autoridad; la plenitud de su autoridad que ellos no ejercen más que en mi nombre reside siempre en mí y…