"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." | Quote by: | Richard Rumbold
(1622–1685) Parliamentarian soldier, political radical, exiled for his role in the 1683 Rye House Plot, later executed for taking part in the 1685 Argyll's Rising |
Source: | His final words on the scaffold before he was hanged in 1685.
Douglass ADAIR, Rumbold's Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson's Last Words on Democracy, 1826 [Notes and Documents], in: William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 9, 1952, p. 521 |
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