PATRIOT'S DECLARATION
"The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth." Thomas Paine
(1776) ++ "I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it
will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these
States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light
and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And
that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even all tho We
should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not." John Adams (1776)
++ "Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!" George Washington
(1779) ++ "[T]he flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over
too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of
despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who
work them." Thomas Jefferson (1821) ++ "If we wish to be free; if we
mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we
have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the
noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have
pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our
contest shall be obtainedwe must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must
fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left
us." Patrick Henry (1775)
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