middle-of-the-way

Updated: June 9, 2025

All these moderate, middle-of-the-way men had now to bring this idea into the focus of attention, for the great illusion that Britain would not push matters to extremities was rapidly dissolving, and the time was come when it was no longer possible for any man to be a British-American and when every man must decide whether it was better to be an American even at the price of rebellion or a Briton even at the price of submission.

Carl Lotus Becker - The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England