Shakespearean quotation

[Joel S. Berson]

Be taxt, or not be taxt, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in our minds to suffer
The flights and cunning of deceitful statesmen,
Or to petition 'gainst illegal taxes,
And by opposing end them?

Alleged to have been published in the Massachusetts Spy, Aug. 14,
1770, and the South Carolina Gazette, Mar. 16, 1769, copied from the
Georgia Gazette, Mar. 1, 1769.  Seen in Philip Davidson, "Propaganda
and the American Revolution, 1763--1783 (Univ. of North Carolina
Press, 1941), p. 241.

Joel

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