"Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! In vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords."
~ Samuel Adams, (letter to James Warren,
Reference: The Spirit of `Seventy-Six, Commager and Morris (294); original Warren-Adams Letters, vol. 1 (224-225)
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