If You Had To Constitute New Societies, You Might On Moral And Social Grounds Prefer Cornfields To Cotton Factories, An Agricultural To A Manufacturing Population. But Our Lot Is Cast, And We Cannot Recede. - SearchQuotes

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If you had to constitute new societies, you might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population. But our lot is cast, and we cannot recede.

Robert Peel

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