“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.”    John Hancock, in his Boston Massacre Oration given on March 5, 1774

The entirety of this oration may be read at:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/bostonmassacre/hancockoration.html