"You will never know how much it cost the present generation 
to preserve freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you 
do not, I shall repent it in heaven that I ever took half the pains 
to preserve it."  --John Adams  

"Be not intimidated...
nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties
by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency.
These, as they are often used, are but three different names
for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice." -- John Adams
(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
1765
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/John.Adams.Quote.5483