Valerius Poplicola

Is it not high time for the people of this country explicitly to declare whether they will be free men or slaves.

It is an important question which ought to be decide. It concerns us more than anything in this life.

The salivation of our souls is interested in the event, for wherever tyranny is established immortality of every kind comes in like a torrent. It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.

For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected. There interest are interwoven they cannot subsist separately and therefore they and fall together

For this reason they rise and fall together, for this reason it is always observable that those who are combined to destroy the peoples liberties practice every art to poison their morals.

How greatly does it concern us at all events to put a stop to the progress of tyranny.

~Samuel Adams~