If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake,
should in terms renounce or
give up any natural right,
the eternal law of reason and
the grand end of society would absolutely
vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being
the gift of Almighty God,
it is not in the power of man
to alienate this gift and
voluntarily become a slave.
-- Samuel Adams
(1722-1803), was known as
the "Father of the American Revolution.