Against Thy Neighbor

TURN 1×9

& Abraham: The charges are false. Simcoe has created the threat. All I have to do is present the case and then just see it fall apart.
    Anna: You’re planning to lose?
    Abraham: Do you have a better idea?

& Anna: Gather those loyal, raid the armory, storm the church, and shoot Hewlett and Simcoe...
    Abraham: And then hang the Grand Union Flag over the church?
    Anna: Mm.
    Abraham: And then what? Then we bring the war here to Setauket?
    Anna: The war is already here, can’t you see that?

Agnes Obel — Katie Cruel

♪ When I first came to town ♪
♪ They called me roving jewel... ♪
♪ Now they’ve changed their tune ♪
♪ They call me Katie Cruel... ♪

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& Abraham: Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action... whether animate or inanimate, rational or irrational. But laws, in their more confined sense, denote the rules. Not of action in general, but of human action or conduct. That is the precepts by which man, the noblest of all sublunary beings... a creature of both reason and free will... Has no rule to pursue, but such as he prescribes to himself...

& Abraham: Should I have been gentler with him?
    Capt. Simcoe: This is just a formality, as you said. You and I are merely players in a comedy whose ending has already been written. But, by all means, continue the performance.

& Nathaniel Tallmadge: A man may believe in freedom from tyranny and not be rebel or a traitor. If he is not free to make up his own mind, that is the worst form of tyranny.

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