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“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter,--but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech on the Excise Bill.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cf3b4a1d28ee317cc8af3fb1dcbee58e9bbe477e18f26b30dbc6248be60a6970
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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