The man that does not now feel for the honor of the best and noblest cause that ever a country engaged in, and exert himself accordingly, is no longer worthy of a peaceable residence among a people determined to be free.
During the American Revolution, this passage declares that anyone failing to support the cause of liberty is undeserving of living among a free people.
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