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The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.