“Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.”

— Edmund Burke

Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 115
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

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Anglo-Irish statesman 1729–1797

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