–Patrick Henry
–a Founding Father of the United States and advocate for American Revolution and proactive armed resistance:
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
This will be music to the Jews across the steppes of Russia, in the shtetls of the hinterland, and in the parlors of effete European capitals.
Indeed, the Jews had been seeking precisely the same for 2,000 years. America was at–hand.