We Quit England Over This

May 10 2011

They cannot force a man to take stamps who chuses to do without them. They will not find a rebellion; they may indeed make one.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin, in London, to Parliament.

They didn’t listen then about The Stamp Act, then the tea. They’re not listening now about Obamacare.

And they wonder why we’re p*ssed off.

You can find the quote here, in The Parliamentary History of England, page 147.

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