Sons of Liberty (miniseries)

Sons of Liberty (2015) is a three-part American television miniseries, airing on the History channel, dramatizing the early American Revolution events in Boston, Massachusetts, the start of the Revolutionary War, and the negotiations of the Second Continental Congress which resulted in the drafting and signing of the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence.

The Uprising [1.02]

 * Benjamin Franklin: [to British Parliament members] Supposed you were to send an additional military force into Boston, what do you think their reaction will be? Your soldiers won't find a rebellion there, but they may inspire one. If you make martyrs of these men, the people of Boston won't see them as sons of tyranny. They'll be seen as Sons of Liberty.


 * General Thomas Gage: Do be cautious, Dr. Warren. The streets are rather treacherous.

Independence [1.03]

 * Samuel Adams: I know what most of you think of me, that I'm a thug. A smuggler. Rebel. That I started all of this, asked for it. A drunk, who never did anything with his life and has caused all this trouble for anybody. Well I am here today to tell you that you're right. I am. I am all of those things, and more. But, in the eyes of the crown, I'm nothing. In the eyes of the crown, you are nothing. You're just colonists. Who do you want to be? I mean, the answer actually isn't even important. It's the idea that we even have the right to ask the question. Who do we want to be? We don't need a birth-right. We don't need a family crest and we certainly don't need the king's damn permission! What we need is a fair and equal chance. The freedom to live our lives as we see fit and the confidence that that freedom cannot be taken away from us! That is our God-given right and I for one am willing to fight for it, willing to die for it. Independence, gentlemen. Independence.


 * Benjamin Franklin: Mr. Adams, you have a lot to learn, And I suggest you learn it quickly. If 12 years standing in front of parliament has taught me anything, It's that politics is a chess match. You must think five moves ahead.
 * Samuel Adams: And what happens five moves from where we are now?
 * Benjamin Franklin: We take their king.


 * George Washington: [reading the U.S. Declaration of Independence] When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, a decent respect requires that they declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, That all men are created equal, That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. And whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to establish new government. We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, do, and with the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved of all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. In the support of this declaration, with a firm alliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor!