Micro-post #136: Samuel Adams on defending freedoms and liberties

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men."

Samuel Adams

Posting this quote tonight since I just finished a good article posted by The Guardian about the decline/replacement of American Mainline Christianity, which I grew up with for most of my childhood (raised United Methodist) and used this quote by Adams as part of the closing argument.