...number of strictly federal offenses, and secondly to nonpolitical ones." (Chap. 6, n. 59, above.) . . . My hold of the colonies is in the close affection...blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. . . . Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government;...

...masterful quality of the race, its intense and elevated conviction. "My hold on the colonies," he declares, "is in the close affection which grows from common...similar privileges, and equal protection. These are the ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the...

...over as if it did not exist. He quoted Burke 's lovely metaphor for imperial rule as it should be — "ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron" — and as he moved towards the end of his speech he warned that this was the "eleventh hour" and the...

...Edmund Burke stated in his Speech on Conciliation with America, in reference to human bonds, that 'these ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.' This, of course, is a metaphor. The links of iron are called metallic bonds, in which the atoms are...