1.  The Liberty Bell.  It was mounted in the Philadelphia State House (renamed Independence Hall) and was rung shortly after the Declaration of Independence was approved.  The bell was originally cast in England, then melted and recast in colonial America.  As such, it is a good symbol of the fact that our ideas of liberty are essentially English traditions refined and recast in the Revolutionary years. 

2.  A Continental (American) soldier placing gun powder on the pan of his musket, to prepare it for firing.  Muskets of that time were notorious for missing their targets.  Some Americans in the frontier regions had better guns with rifled barrels that were far more accurate. 

1.  "I know not what course others may take..."

   These famous lines were spoken by Patrick Henry at a meeting of the Virginia Convention in Richmond in March, 1775.  Henry had long argued for a break with England.  In the speech which ends with these lines, he called for war against the British to protect the rights of the colonies. 

2.  "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."

   These are the most well known lines in the Declaration of Independence, and are among the most important lines ever written in the history of mankind.  With these words, the American government was established on a foundation that, in earlier centuries, only dreamers could have imagined would ever become reality.  They remain an inspiration today not only to Americans, but to people around the world.