Select the correct answer.
Which quotation supports the inference that Great Britain had no intention of giving the colonies the right to freedom?
O A.
"Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?" (paragraph 2)
OB.
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O D.
"If we wish to be free-if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending-if we mean not basely to abandon
the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged...-we must fight!" (paragraph 3)
"Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult, our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been
spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the thronel" (paragraph 3)
"For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery, and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the
debate." (paragraph 1)