ok, i know i'm supposed to be on hiatus, but this seemed too good not to post:

'The Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, was a dishonest piece of propaganda, blaming George III personally for the British policy decisions of the previous thirteen years that had hitherto correctly been attributed to his ministers and to Parliament - for only on that specious ground could the renunciation of his sovereignty be justified.'
---- PDG Thomas, Tea Party to Independence (Oxford, 1991), p. 328