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“Give me liberty or give me death."

[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]”
― Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”
― John Adams

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
― Tom Paine