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“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us
in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the
hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
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“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall
possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need
of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
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“It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate,
tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men.”
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“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely
overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common
enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when
once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their
liberties to the first external or internal invader.”
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“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be
easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On
the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in
their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of
foreign Invaders.”
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“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people
of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own
arms.”
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“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil
Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to
defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair
inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with
toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark
of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is –
if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a
struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing
men.”
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“All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.”
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“Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and
me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we
will rekindle it.”
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