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Sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. . . .
A further objection to force is, that you impair the object by your very endeavours to preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you [Extract] recover...
Date: 22 March 1775
Volume: Volume 1
If he [General Gage] should succeed and beat the raw American troops, which from his superiority in discipline and artillery, as well as his present considerable Numbers, I think he probably will; then we shall be so elevated here as to throw all moderation behind us, and plunge ourselves into a War which cannot be ended by many such Battles, though they should all terminate in so many Victories...
Date: 19 July 1775
Volume: Volume 1
The Spirit of America is incredible. Who do you think the Mr [Thomas] Mifflin, Aid de Camp to Washington, is? ー A very grave and staunch Quaker, of large fortune and much consequence. What think you of that political Enthusiasm, which is able to overpower so much religious Fanaticism? Washington himself is a man of good Military experience, prudent and Cautious, and who yet stakes a fortune of...
Date: 17 August 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I observed, that one main Cause of the supine negligence of several principal Traders, was this. They had formed a confused opinion, that things would come of themselves to an amicable settlement. They have been so often alarmed, that many of them cannot believe the present troubles to be any thing more than an alarm. On this delusive supposition, they go on filling their Warehouses with Goods,...
Date: 14 September 1775
Volume: Volume 2
We have had publick Notice, that no packet after this will regularly Sail for America.2 No body can more deeply and sincerely regret than I do, the unfortunate differences which have thus cut off the intercourse of Countries which ought to be united by the strongest and dearest of all ties.
Date: 3 October 1775
Volume: Volume 2
I have the honour to enclose to your Lordship some important papers transmitted to me by a respectable House in Bristol. They contain an account with the proper Vouchers of the Capture, by American Privateers, of two Newfoundland Ships, in a great part the property of my constituents. One of these Vessels has been taken into Bilboa, the other into St. Andero. I am desired by the owners...
Date: 16 February 1778
Volume: Volume 11