"If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude, than the animating contest of freedom - go 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 you were our countrymen."
~ Samuel Adams, August 1, 1776
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence