"There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! ...The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. ...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 course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death." -- Patrick Henry (1736-1799)