[wintertime]

Last time around, there were never more than 3% engaged in the ‘animated contest’. I think we can do better than that now.
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I am so sorry. What is “animated contest”?

[Noumenon]

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say "what should be the reward of such sacrifices?"

"Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home 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