America Now On the Verge of Re-Fighting the American Revolution?

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32. Neither likely, the first known usage was by John Philpott Curran in London, in 1790

From The speeches of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran (July 10, 1790, p. 105, italics added).

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Nor is it strange that, in those times, a board consisting of so small a number as twenty-four members, with the advantages of a more united interest, and a longer continuance in office, should have prevailed, even contrary to so evident principles of natural justice and constitutional right, against the unsteady resistance of competitors so much less vigilant, so much more numerous, and, therefore, so much less united. It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance, which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.