If our posterity retain any spark of patriotism, they can never tamely submit to such burdens.

This country will be made the field of bloody contention till it gains that independence for which nature formed it.

It is therefore injustice and cruelty to our offspring, and would stamp us with the character of baseness and cowardice, to leave the salvation of this country to be worked out by them with accumulated difficulty and danger.
– Samuel Adams, speech to Congress, Statehouse of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776