[I]t is by bold and manly efforts Nations have been preserved not pursueing alone the line of home defence. - George III of Great Britain

[A]ll men seem now to feel that the fatal compliance in 1766 has encouraged the Americans annually to encrease in their pretensions to that thorough independency which one state has of another, but which is quite subversive of the obedience which a colony owes to its mother country.

I have signed the Messages to the two Houses of Parliament respecting the Province of Quebec, and shall be happy if the alterations proposed prove agreable to the different classes of subjects in that Province, but must ever think those who have the strongest claim on the attention of this country are the old inhabitants, whose rights and usages ought by no means to be disturbed.

We may therefore infer from this long reign that this people will never refuse anything to a sovereign who they know will be the defender of their liberties.