Before the Revolutionary War began Samuel Adams issued a gut check to his fellow colonists who would dare to call themselves Americans.
If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. Another great charge to commit or forget about it -- to follow through with abandon or abandon all attempt, because no middle ground can be tolerated in regard to supreme causes.
Anyone who puts a hand to the plow and then looks back is not fit for the Kingdom of God. Luke 9.62.
