American revolution Quote by George Washington

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something…

— Dave Barry

“By March 1766, colonist boycotts had proved so costly to British merchants that Parliament repealed the stamp tax without having collected a single penny.”

— Harlow Giles Unger

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

— Peter Thomas

The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as…

— Thomas Hutchinson

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from…

— Christopher Gadsden

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right…

— A. V. Dicey

Margaret Thatcher's decision to use Scotland as a testing ground for the poll tax was arguably the most disastrous attempt at fiscal engineering since…

— Linda Colley

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is a tendency for the British establishment to work out everything very carefully and then present it to parliament as 'a take it…

— Crispin Blunt

It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep…

— Jeremy Corbyn