"We object to being taxed by a Parliament in which we are not represented.

The trouble should be stopped not by force but by action that will satisfy our sense of injustice--not a very difficult thing.

A military force, quartered in Boston, has done great mischief." "What liberty do you want ?" "Liberty to have a voice in the selection of our governors and magistrates and in the making of the laws we are expected to obey." "I think it is a just demand," said the Colonel.
Solomon Binkus had listened with keen interest.
"I sucked in the love o' liberty with my mother's milk," he said.

"Ye mustn't try to make me do nothin' that goes ag'in' my common sense; if ye do, ye're goin' to have a gosh hell o' a time with the ol' man which, you hear to me, will last as long as I do.

These days there ortn't to be no sech thing 'mong white men as bein' born into captivity an' forced to obey a master, no argeyment bein' allowed.