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Speech as a Patriot
December 20, 2011
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Independence paper Hello my fellow congressmen, my name is Isaac Sears, and I am in full support of obtaining independence for this great country. I think that we as a nation can stand on our own and not have to bow down to the British. They ask everything from us but give nothing in return. For to long have they taken away from us. We need to stand up to them and declare independence for ourselves. In the words of Thomas Paine “Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured.” We did not come here to pay taxes and subjected to these injustices, we came to build a life of independence. We need to fight back and take what is ours. We need to stand up to the British and show them that together we stand strong. As a whole we need to come together to fight this battle for independence. Again Paine’s words ring true in stating, “Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.” We must fight for what we want, and if that means fighting a war against the British then so be it, we will carry that burden to fight for a free country.
When we have independence we will have the right to our own government and our own democracy. We have a right to follow any religion along with the rights to our property, which includes paying taxes. We will have the right to many things that currently we have had taken away from use due to monarchial dictatorship of Britain. Paine also states, “The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” And right now the British government is abusing their power. They are using us, and we have done nothing. How long will this go on until we decide that enough is enough? We need to stand up to them now and claim what is rightfully ours. We have varieties of goods that we can trade in order to build our economy, however under the rules of the British we may only trade

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