Select the correct answer.

Which quotation supports the inference that Great Britain had no intention of giving the colonies the right to freedom?

A. "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)

B. "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 throne!" (paragraph 3)

C. "Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?" (paragraph 2)

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)