 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 sider
...contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! "Our chains are forged! Their clanging may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable...What would they have? "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what... | |
 | William Safire - 2004 - 1168 sider
...forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! 1 repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to...What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what... | |
 | Jennifer Prior - 2004 - 193 sider
...the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! l repeat it, sir, let it come. lt is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen...What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? ls life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it,... | |
 | Merrill Jensen - 2004 - 754 sider
...the creation of his first biographer, but a superb creation nonetheless. It concluded with the words: Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no...What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God — I know not... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 2004 - 280 sider
...Machiavelli, The Prince 1 "It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentleman may cry, Peace, Peace—but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The...What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!" —Patrick... | |
 | Jim Lehrer - 2005 - 232 sider
...stood up and moved away from the table. Then, in the mode of Patrick Henry, he forcefully orated: " 'Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace — but there is...What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what... | |
 | Harvard Business Review - 2005 - 193 sider
...famous speech of March 1775, only one month before the initial armed clashes of the American revolution: Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" but there is no...What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Having posed his rhetorical questions,... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - 2005 - 470 sider
...come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is not peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that...What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - 2006 - 281 sider
...Will it be the next week or the next year? . . . Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power....What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid "it, Almighty God ! I know not... | |
 | Bob Gingrich - 2006 - 261 sider
...Boston! The war is inevitable - and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sire, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace,...What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what... | |
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Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What... 
