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Quotation from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson
“The cause of liberty is a cause of too much dignity, to be sullied by turbulence and tumult.”
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter III (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text)
Dickinson sets out the temper in which opposition to the Townshend duties should be conducted.
Citation: "The cause of liberty is a cause of too much dignity, to be sullied by turbulence and tumult." — John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter III (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id letters-from-a-farmer-in-pennsylvania-q2)
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