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“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth

defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all

attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy

ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of

treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It

will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation,

enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by

violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of

false and designing men.” Samuel Adams