“That those pimps and parasites who dared to advise their master to such detestable measures be held in utter abhorrence by us and every American, and their names loaded with curses of all succeeding generations. That we scorn the chains of slavery; we despise every attempt to rivet them upon us; we are the sons of freedom and resolved that, till time be no more, godlike virtue shall blazon our hemisphere.”
Proceedings of Farmington, Connecticut on the Boston Port Act, May 19, 1774