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The term Patriot press refers to those newspapers and pamphlets after 1765 that ran essays, editorials, and articles critical of the king and Parliament. The impact that these periodicals had on American society was indeed significant. They stimulated the people's outrage by the principal means of opinion control: propaganda, or the spreading of ideas, information, and rumor for the purpose of aiding or undermining a cause, institution, or person.

Sweet Liberty

These are the times that try men's souls The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph What we obtain too cheap, we esteem...