John Adams Quote T-Shirt | "Liberty Once Lost Is Lost Forever" | American Revolution Shirt
Asphalt / XS
$25.00
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John Adams Quote T-Shirt | "Liberty Once Lost Is Lost Forever" | American Revolution Shirt
$25.00
| XS | S | M | L | XL | 2XL | 3XL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Width, in | 16.50 | 18.00 | 20.00 | 22.00 | 24.00 | 26.00 | 28.00 |
| Length, in | 27.00 | 28.00 | 29.00 | 30.00 | 31.00 | 32.00 | 33.00 |
On July 7, 1775, John Adams sat down in Philadelphia to write a letter to his wife Abigail. She had been writing to him from Massachusetts, describing the devastation around Boston. Burned towns, suffering neighbors, the human cost of a war that was just beginning.
He wrote to console her. Cities can be rebuilt, he told her. People reduced to poverty can recover. But a constitution once changed from freedom cannot be restored. And then he wrote the line that has echoed for 250 years:
Liberty once lost is lost forever.
He wasn't writing a speech. He wasn't addressing a crowd. He was a husband trying to explain to his wife why everything they were risking was worth it. Why the cause of liberty, as painful and costly as it was, could never be surrendered.
Two hundred and fifty years later the letter still stands. And so does the warning.
Wear it as a reminder that liberty is not guaranteed. It must be protected and passed on.
Product Features:
- The flag graphic is distressed by design. It's meant to look like it's been through something. Because it has.
- 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton (fiber content varies by color)
- Athletic Heather is 90% cotton, 10% polyester. Other heather colors are 52% cotton, 48% polyester
- Light fabric, 4.2 oz/yd² (142 g/m²)
- Retail fit
- Tear-away label
- Made in the USA with imported fabric
Care Instructions:
- Machine wash warm, inside out, with like colors
- Non-chlorine bleach when needed
- Tumble dry low
- Iron medium. Do not iron decoration
- Do not dry clean
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