— Samuel Adams in a speech to the Second Continental Congress on August 1, 1776.

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

— Samuel Adams, speech to Second Continental Congress on August 1, 1776.

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"