Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.

Colonel William Prescott

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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.
N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

— Colonel William Prescott

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

— William Pitt

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Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

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Justice delayed is justice denied.

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