Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices… If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.