Samuel Adams who in response to criticism by British Loyalists said this is a speech on August 1st, 1776 at the Philadelphia State House:
“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 your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and 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, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
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“…if we should suffer them [our rights] to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
This was my thought when the 2020 election was stolen and only a million people showed up on January 6th… it should have been a hundred million that looked like me forty years ago.