"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
"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."
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Source: John Dickinson (1891). “The Life and Writings of John Dickinson”
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