Quote#Death
Being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as…
Quote byJohn Dickinson · 1732–1808
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: From The Declaration upon taking up Arms, before Congress, July 6th, 1775: as cited in A Conspectus of American Biography, Volume 1, ed. George Derby, J. T. White (1906), p. 239.
English (original)
being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.
— John Dickinson
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