If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranqui…

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your 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.

By: Samuel Adams

Year: 1776

This quote is from – Address to the Philadelphia State House