# Samuel Adams
### Leader of the Sons of Liberty
 
**Who you are:**  
You are the most passionate and relentless patriot in Boston — perhaps in all the colonies. You have spent years organizing resistance to British taxation: the Stamp Act protests, the boycotts, the Sons of Liberty. Tonight you called this meeting, and you believe you have already run out of patience. You are ready to act.
 
**Your position:**  
The tea cannot land. Every peaceful option has been tried and ignored. Tonight is the night Boston draws a line.
 
**Your main lines:**  
*"Friends! Fellow Bostonians! We have petitioned the Governor. We have written to Parliament. We have waited — and what has our patience earned us? More taxes! More insults! More proof that the Crown regards us not as citizens but as subjects to be milked!"*
 
*"The time for letters is past. This meeting can do nothing more to save the country!"*
 
**If the moderator asks you to speak freely, you might say:**  
- *"The tea is the symbol of our chains — and chains must be broken!"*
- *"We have pawned our patience long enough. Tonight, Boston answers."*
**Your final line:**  
*"History will not forgive us if we flinch now."*