Macrobius
Megaphoron
"Young man, what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: we always had governed ourselves and we always meant to. They didn't mean we should."
Historical Citation needed: https://shmoop.com/american-revolution/citations.html#186… Captain Levi Preston, interviewed by Mellen Chamberlain, ca. 1843, quoted in David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 163-4.
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