Richard Rumbold - quoted by Thomas Jefferson...referencing the REPUBLIC
"I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden."
Or this version from WIKIPEDIA:
(Accessed 25 July 2011 @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rumbold ) referencing:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials, vol. IX, 1816, p. 882.
Hannibal Rumbold made his own defiant declaration on the scaffold:
This speech was rendered famous all over again during the discussions on the definition of treason at the American Constitutional Convention.[2]
^2. Douglass Adair, "Rumbold's Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson's Last Words on Democracy, 1826", in The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series, 9.4 (October 1952:521-531) p 523f.).
-- Richard Rumbold
(?-1685) British Colonel
Source: His final words on the scaffold before he was hanged in 1685. Or this version from WIKIPEDIA:
(Accessed 25 July 2011 @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rumbold ) referencing:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials, vol. IX, 1816, p. 882.
Hannibal Rumbold made his own defiant declaration on the scaffold:
| "This is a deluded generation, veiled in ignorance, that though popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; though I am sure that there was no man born marked by God above another; for none comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him..."[1] |
^2. Douglass Adair, "Rumbold's Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson's Last Words on Democracy, 1826", in The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd Series, 9.4 (October 1952:521-531) p 523f.).
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