"The motto of Great Britain would seem to be, 'Do no right and suffer no wrong.' They search our ships; they impress our seamen; they impose taxes through a Parliament in which we are not represented, and if we threaten resistance they would have us tried for treason.

Nero used to say that he wished that the inhabitants of Rome had only one neck, so that he could dispose of them with a single blow.

It was a rather merciful wish, after all.

A neck had better be chopped off than held under the yoke of tyranny." "Sir, England shielded, protected, us from French and Indians," Mr.
Pinhorn declared with high indignation.
"It protected its commerce.

We were protecting British interests and ourselves.