"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."

• Samuel Adams

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"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."

• Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, December 20, 1787

"...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."

• James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

"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."

• Samuel Adams

light and transient causes

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"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."

• Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, December 20, 1787

"...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."

• James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

"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." -Samuel Adams

light and transient causes

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"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."

• Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, December 20, 1787

"...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."

• James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

"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." Samuel Adams

light and transient causes

LOL

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."

• Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, December 20, 1787

"...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."

• James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

light and transient causes

LOL