Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.