Warning of the Approaching Redcoats
Paul Revere: [riding through a town at night]
Turn out! Turn out your militia!
Villager: [opens window]
What's all the noise down there?
Paul Revere:
The Redcoats are coming!
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Trust Between Friends in Challenging Times
Johnny Tremain:
You trust me?
Rab Silsbee:
Any reason why we shouldn't?
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Principles and Conflict in Uncertain Times
Ship Captain: [During the [[w:Boston Tea Party|Boston Tea Party]
].] Isn't it odd? These Indians seem to prefer principles to profits.
Patriot Commander at Lexington:
We'll stand by our orders, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.
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Vanquished by an Idea of Human Rights
Gen. Gage: [to his officers]
You see those campfires, gentlemen? Yesterday we ruled over Boston. Tonight we are beseiged in it. And still they come from every village and farm. Tonight 10,000. Tomorrow perhaps twice 10,000. We've experienced more than a defeat, more than a mere misfortune of war. We have been vanquished by an idea, a belief in human rights.
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Desperation in the Face of Crisis
Samuel Adams:
This meeting can do nothing more to save the country!
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The Simplicity of Our Fight for Freedom
James Otis:
For we must fight this war, in meeting house and Congress and the halls of Parliament, as well as on the field! But what it's all about, you'll really never know. And yet it-it it's so much simpler than any of you think. We give all we have. We fight! We die, for a simple thing. Only that a man could stand.
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The Balance of Craft and Duty
Paul Revere:
There's a time for casting silver and a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the Holy Writ, it should't be.
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