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“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never! never! never!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Nov. 18, 1777.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f4149c3d7c4c2df7789f333f3e23c8037de9674cfb2380650547606970bbcd93
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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