“By the spring of 1769 a few were already thinking the unthinkable. One of these was thirty-seven-year-old George Washington: ‘At a time when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprication [sic] of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke and maintain the liberty which we have derived from our ancestors; but the manner of doing it to answer the purpose effectually is the point in question. That no man should scruple or hesitate a moment to use arms in defense of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource.’ Washington was one of the first on the continent to openly speak of the dreaded possibility of using arms to defend the precious rights of his countrymen.” ~ Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, W. Cleon Skousen [The Real George Washington (National Center for Constitutional Studies, 2008), 101]
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