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“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
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- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9758a8ac0dac4a12fa4c11de11d3bc72b81ecfa60a7423a3711bd2a8dee7d219
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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