"My Hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are the ties which, though light as air, are as strong as the links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of thier civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. but let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their priviliges another; that these two things may exist without any mutual relations; the cement is gone; the cohesion is loosened; and everything hastens to decay and dissolution."
~ An Exerpt from The Honounerable Edmunde Burke's 'Speech on moving His resolutions for Conciliation With America'
If King George III had listened to this man can you imagine how different America would have been today, would it indeed have been America?
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