If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, – go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen Samuel Adams
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An excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote this about the British. He was trying to get them to leave America. Jefferson did not want the British soldiers to stay in America. He did not want them to be there because he wanted to make sure that they left.

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