I have learnt from experience that the established authority of any government in America, and the policy of government at home, are both insufficient to restrain the Americas. They acquire no attachment to place, but wandering about seems engrafted in their nature, and it is a weakness incident to it, that they should forever imagine the lands further off are still better than those upon which they are already settled. -- Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, December 24, 1974.
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