Reminds me of an early scene in the movie "Last of the Mohicans," when the British officer is recruiting a militia among a group of colonial farmers in a small village somewhere in upstate New York. Some of the farmers are concerned that if they leave their farms, their families will not be protected against attacks by the Ottawa and Huron tribes who are fighting with the French. Nathanial, the white man who was orphaned as a child and adopted by Chingachkook of the Mohicans, points out that it is the families of the farmers will be the ones exposed to attacks by the French and the Indians while the families of the British officers will be living comfortably in London, Boston, or New York.
Officer (angrily): "You call yourself a patriot, and loyal subject of the Crown?"
Nathanial (nonchalantly): "I don't call myself subject to much at all."