If ye love
wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest
of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down
and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and
may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
. . . Samuel Adams
Speech to the State House
Philadelphia
1776
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