Chris Berg
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“When Napoleon said ‘England is a nation of shopkeepers’ he actually didn’t mean it as an insult. He recognised England’s wealth was a product of its trade, not its population or the extent of its territory.”
― Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt that Gave Us Liberty
― Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt that Gave Us Liberty
“Tories were more likely to support the king and a conservative position. The description also originated as an insult, from the Irish word for a bandit, ‘toraighe’.”
― Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt that Gave Us Liberty
― Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt that Gave Us Liberty
“In England, individuals owned the land, and they could buy and sell land as they wished—all property was purchasable—a premise contrary to law in nearly every other part of the world.”
― Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt that Gave Us Liberty
― Magna Carta: The Tax Revolt that Gave Us Liberty
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