Jonathan Shipley
Jonathan Shipley (1714 – 6 December 1788) was a clergyman who held offices in the Church of England (including Dean of Winchester from 1760 to 1769), and who served as Bishop of Llandaff from January to September 1769 and as Bishop of St Asaph from September 1769 until his death.
Quotes
[edit]- The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
- A Sermon Preached Before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1773), p. 11; also in the Maryland Gazette, no. 1454 (22 July 1773), p. 1
Speech (1774)
[edit]- Speech, published, but not delivered, after voting against one of the Intolerable Acts: A Speech intended to have been spoken on the Bill for altering the Charters of the Colony of Massachusett's Bay (London: T. Cadell, 1774); also in the Maryland Gazette, no. 1516 (29 September 1774), p. 1
- It has always been a most arduous task to govern distant provinces, with even a tolerable appearance of justice.
- Arbitrary taxation is plunder authorized by law.
- The idea of governing provinces and colonies by force is visionary and chimerical. The experiment has often been tried, and it has never succeeded. It ends infallibly in the ruin of one country or the other.
- The people are certainly the best judges whether they are well governed; and the Crown can have no rights inconsistent with the happiness of the people.
- I look upon North America as the only great nursery of freemen left on the face of the earth.
External links
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- Henry Leigh Bennett, "Shipley, Jonathan", Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 52 (1897), p. 111
- Paul H. Smith (ed.) English Defenders of American Freedoms, 1774–1778 (1972), pp. 22–23