Sam Bellamy's "Free Prince Speech" Poster

TEXT: “You are a sneaking puppy! And so are all those who will submit to be governed by laws which rich men have made for their own security – for the cowardly whelps have not the courage otherwise to defend what they get by knavery! But damn ye altogether! Damn them for a pack of crafty rascals – and you, who serve them, for a parcel of hen-hearted numbskulls! They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference: they rob the poor under the cover of law forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage! Had you not better make then [alliance with] one of us, than sneak after these villains for employment?! You are a devilish conscience rascal! I am a free Prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who has a hundred sail of ships at sea and an army of 100,000 men in the field – and this MY conscience tells me! But there is no arguing with such sniveling puppies, who allow superiors to kick them about deck at pleasure, and pin their faith upon a pimp of a parson – a squab – who neither practices nor believes what he puts upon the chuckle-headed fools he preaches to!”