Quotation of the Day…

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… is from Thomas Jefferson’s 1774 “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” as quoted in Phil Magness’s new essay “The American Revolution Was a Fight For Free Trade“:

That the exercise of a free trade with all parts of the world, possessed by the American colonists, as of natural right, and which no law of their own had taken away or abridged, was next the object of unjust encroachment.