HURRY PLZ Which of the following does not need to be treated as a direct quote?
a unique, memorable statement by a powerful person
an explanation of a technical principle
a well-known, commonly-used saying or idiom
a precise, specific theory

"such has been the patient suffrence of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to after their former systems of government. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of reapeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishedment of an absolute tyranny over these states." which statement best describes the excerpt