![]() “A colonist cannot make a button, a horseshoe or a hobnail and some snooty ironmonger or respectable buttonmaker of England shall bawl and squall that he is most egregiously maltreated, injured, cheated, and robbed by the rascally American republicans.” “Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America… nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them… As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule over them… men whose behaviour on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them.” “Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?” “I will never burn my fingers with an American stamp tax.” “This is the price that America pays you for her protection… the Stamp Act he repealed absolutely totally and immediately.” “No parts of his Majesty’s dominions can be taxed without their consent.” Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.” “The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. “It cannot be good to tax the Americans… You will lose more than you gain.” Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.” “You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. “This open resistance to authority can only have found a place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.” “Mr Grenville strongly urged not only the power but the right of Parliament to tax the colonies and hoped in God’s name that none would dare dispute their Sovereignty.” If you would like to contribute an interesting or useful quotation, please contact Alpha History. These quotations have been gathered and compiled by Alpha History authors. ![]() ![]() This page contains a collection of American Revolution quotations from revolutionary leaders, contemporary figures and prominent historians, pertaining to the Stamp Act crisis.
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