Carolina Quotes[W]ithout flattery to your Grace, I must look and ever shall upon you and your connections as the solid foundations on which every good, which has happened to this country since the Revolution, have been erected... What a medley of government is probably soon to take place & when it does what an alarm will ensue!
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Connected to the Carolinas
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Letter to the Duke of Newcastle (9 May 1762), quoted in Ross J. S. Hoffman, The Marquis: A Study of Lord Rockingham, 1730–1782 (1973), p. 37
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