The Liberty Tree (1646–1775) was a famous elm tree that stood in Boston near Boston Common, in the days before the American Revolution. Ten years before the American Revolution, colonists in Boston staged the first act of defiance against the British government at the tree. The tree became a rallying point for the growing resistance to the rule of Britain over the American colonies.
Read more about Liberty Tree: History of The Great Tree, 20th Century Remembrance, Other Liberty Trees
Famous quotes containing the words liberty and/or tree:
“Science ... has won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom to use nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Cynicism is the humour of hatred.”
—Herbert Beerbohm, Sir Tree (1853–1917)