 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat...Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! . . . The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - History - 2000 - 426 pages
...speak: Fightin' Words The House of Burgesses was the lower house of the colonial Assembly of Virgin ia. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery!...Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - Political Science - 2000 - 264 pages
...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. It we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat...Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable— and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat...Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate... | |
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If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come!... 
