"With hearts fortified with these animating
reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that,
exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath
graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to
assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and
perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind
resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves."
--John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of
the Cause and Necessity of Taking up Arms, 1775
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