Montesquieu — "I have never heard of anything so insolent as to propose to the English Parliame…"
I have never heard of anything so insolent as to propose to the English Parliament to give up their liberty by their own consent.
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Thoughts (Pensées), Entry 194 (This is a more obscure quote, sometimes cited as 'My Thoughts')
Date: c. 1720s-1750s
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