AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DECLARATION OF THE CAUSES AND NECESSITY OF TAKING UP ARMS 1775 [More]An interesting resource...
I cited the declaration here, which many of you have probably not seen. Go ahead and read it--I'll still be here when you get back.
[Via Carl S]
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"We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force.-The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them."
Exactly.
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