“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately”
― Benjamin Franklin

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”
― Tom Paine

“Give me liberty or give me death”
– Patrick Henry

“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty”
– Christopher Hitchens

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker”
– John Adams

“There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come!”
– Patrick Henry

“As in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other”
― Thomas Paine

“Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children; but it is our duty to leave liberty to them”
– John Dickinson

“Remember officers and soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty – that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men”
– George Washington

“When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties”
― Marquis De Lafayette

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776

Musical memories of Hollywood

WEST End stars Lisa Pulman and Joe Stilgoe bring movie musical magic to Dorchester Corn Exchange with their new show Hooray for Hollywood, on Tuesday 3rd February at 7.30pm, followed by other local dates at Christchurch and Bath.

The two versatile and popular performers have put together a delightful mix of some of the best-loved songs of our movie-musical lives– from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked, West Side Story to La La Land.

Starting almost a century ago with The Jazz Singer in 1927, this joyful celebration pays tribute to the Hollywood musicals that have captured hearts for a hundred years.

So bring your popcorn, sit back, and let Pulman and Stilgoe transport you through the golden age and modern classics of movie musicals in a feel-good night of music – just what you need to treat yourself in February!

Hooray for Hollywood is on a pre-London tour with dates at Dorchester on 3rd February, Christchurch Regent Centre on 4th February and the Ustinov Studio at Bath Theatre Royal on 23rd to 25th March.