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When liberty is the prize, who would shun the warfare? Who would stoop to waste a coward thought on life?

— Joseph Warren Letter to the Stonington Committee (1774)

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May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the world in one common undistinguished ruin!

Oration at Boston (1772)

The ground's your own, my braves!
Will ye give it up to slaves?
Will ye look for greener graves?

Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them, resolve never to part with your birth-right; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties.

Oration at Boston (1772)

'Tis for you, brethren, for ourselves, for our united posterity, we hazard all; and permit us humbly to hope, that such a measure of vigilance, fortitude, and perseverance will still be afforded us, that, by patiently suffering and nobly daring, we may eventually secure that more precious than Hesperian fruit, the golden apples of freedom.

Letter to the Stonington Committee (1774)

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