"Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms" (6 Jul 1775) [with John Dickinson] - Jefferson, Thomas | WIST Quotations
We should be wanting to ourselves, we should be perfidious to posterity, we should be unworthy that free ancestry from which we derive our descent, should we submit with folded arms to military butchery & depredation .... Final draft as approved by the Continental Congress.
