One of the Patriots' greatest strengths was their PERSISTENCE TO CONTINUE FIGHTING.
Even though they met with lots of resistance on their ways, yet the patriots refuse to quit and continued fighting from generation to generation until America obtain the total freedom she so much desired and craved for. The freedom would have been unobtainable, if the patriots had laid down their weapons and refuse to continue fighting due to weariness and their children would have continue to be subjected to all forms of bondage.