Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What shall be the reward for such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, and 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 chase us from the face of the earth?

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedoms, go from us in peace.

We ask not your counsel or your 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