' Liberty and Freedom '...

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.


-Samuel Adams