If you like history you'll enjoy this. Its the examination of Ben Franklin by the house of commons regaurding the colonial resistance to the stamp act. I personally love the final answers.
Q. If the Stamp Act should be repealed, would it induce the assemblies of America to acknowledge the rights of Parliament to tax them, and would they erase their resolutions?
A. No, never!
Q. Are there no means of obliging them to erase those resolutions?
A. None that I know of; they will never do it, unless compelled by force of arms.
Q. Is there a power on earth that can force them to erase them?
A. No power, how great soever, can force men to change their opinions.
Q. What used to be the pride of the Americans?
A. To indulge in the fashions and manufactures of Great Britain.
Q. What is now their pride?
A. To wear their old clothes over again till they can make new ones.
Franklin's Examination Before the House of Commons
The refusal to buy british was a beautiful act of defiance. Overall the similarities between the causes of the revolution to the situation we find ourselves in now is striking. What we lack now is the willingness to sacrifice.