"I for one will never be accessory to subjecting my country to the control of France merely to get rid of England."

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Original Language: English

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Diary (13 April 1796), quoted in T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell and C. J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763–98, Volume II: America, France and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 (2001), p. 154