Ol' Sam Adams puts it in a nutshell...

Amazing quote from Scrutiny Hooligans:

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams

In other words,

Up against the wall. The Revolution lives, and we're not going away.