"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 arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which
feed you. May your chains set lightly
upon you, and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen."
~~Samuel Adams, speech at the
Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776