“The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending against 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 wrestled away from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
–Samuel Adams
