Then the light glows upon the two Spokesmen and they begin to speak again. This time dim music accompanies their words ... spoken once to the House of Commons by Edmund Burke.]
The First Spokesman
A government against which a claim of freedom is tantamount to high treason is a government to which submission is equivalent to slavery.
The Second Spokesman
The people of the colonies are the descendants of Englishmen and therefore love liberty according to English ideas and on English principles.
The First Spokesman
Men may be as sorely touched and as deeply grieved in their privileges as in their purses; men may lose little in property by the act which takes away all their freedom.
The Second Spokesman
To prove that Americans ought not to be free we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
The First Spokesman