"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices? Are we just to do nothing? To allow 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? I detest any submission to a people who have either ceased to be human, or have not virtue enough to feel their own wretchedness! If ye love comfort better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom - go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands of your master. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"

--Samuel Adams, 1776