Posted by
M*A on Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:44:50 AM
“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 plow, 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 animating
contest of freedom–go 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 ye were our
countrymen!”
Samuel Adams
Speech, State House of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1 August 1776)
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