Brooklyn Red Leg
Anarcho-Capitalism FTW!
- Samuel Adams, 1776Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection! Let us not be so amused with words: the extension of her commerce was her object. When she defended our coasts, she fought for her customers, and convoyed our ships loaded with wealth, which we had acquired for her by our industry. She has treated us as beasts of burden.
Let us also inquire against whom she has protected us? Against her own enemies with whom we had no quarrel, or only on her account, and against whom we always readily exerted our wealth and strength when they were required.
But what purpose can arguments of this kind answer? Did the protection we received annul our rights, and lay us under an obligation of being miserable?
Who among you would claim authority to make your child a slave because you had nourished him in his infancy?
It is a strange species of generosity which requires a return infinitely more valuable than anything it could have bestowed: that demands as a reward for a defense of our property, a surrender of those inestimable privileges, to the arbitrary will of vindictive tyrants.
Courage, then, my countrymen! Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth, for civil and religious liberty?
From the day on which an accommodation takes place between England and America, on any other terms than as independent States, I shall date the ruin of this country.
When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin, and render us easier victims to tyranny.
If we love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude, than the animating contest of freedomgo from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
The Arbitrary Will of Vindictive Tyrants
Bolded for emphasis as this fits us far too much in this day and age.
