Understanding Great Britain: An Address Delivered at Lake Mohonk, New York, on August Seventeenth, 1919 (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Understanding Great Britain: An Address Deli...)
Excerpt from Understanding Great Britain: An Address Delivered at Lake Mohonk, New York, on August Seventeenth, 1919
Our idea of liberty is almost wholly British. When the first settlers came to America, they never dreamed of separation from Great. Britain. They named their new settlements New England, New London, New York, in loving memory of the land they left; hoping here to create a society, purged of old-world abuses, but forever true to the ideals of Runnymede and Cambridge, of Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden.
And when we fought Great Britain for seven long years, we were really fighting for her. We were fighting her people's battle against her ig morant German King, to whom liberty was a strange and dangerous device On our side in the American Revolution were not only Lafayette and Rochambeau but the best minds in England, and Burke, and North and Pitt vied with each other in affirming that the American Colonies were fundamentally right.
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