Sam Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)







Monday, December 24, 2012

Christmas 1776 The Battle of Trenton American Colonial Troops Defeat British and Hessian Troops





















Passage of the Delaware. Dec. 25, 1776 Painting by Thomas Sully. American. 1918


Washington at the Battle of Trenton. December 1776.
Copy of engraving by Illman Brothers after E. L. Henry,
circa 1870., 1931 - 1932 Via Wikimedia Commons
 






















This Christmas, 2012, we can remember that our founders fought on this day
for freedom and liberty for all.
As we stay in our homes,
we can remember that the Continental Army
marched in the snow and the sleet so that
their children and posterity could be free.
We must remember their courage.
Whatever we face as Americans today,
they would have faced for US.

Sources - Rough Draft:
Film. The Crossing. Selection: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJdu_ortw0k
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/americanrevolution/p/American-Revolution-Battle-Of-Trenton.htm
Passage of the Delaware. Painted by Thomas Sully. 1818. Oil on Canvas. 146.5 × 207 in (372.1 × 525.8 cm) Museum of Fine Arts Boston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1819_Passage_OfThe_Delaware_byThomasSully_MFABoston.jpeg
Washington at the Battle of Trenton. December 1776.
Copy of engraving by Illman Brothers after E. L. Henry,
circa 1870., 1931 - 1932 Via Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_at_the_Battle_of_Trenton._December_1776._
Copy_of_engraving_by_Illman_Brothers_after_E._L._Henry,_circa_1870.,_-_NARA_-_532916.tif





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