Don't Tread On Me

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The symbolism of the rattlesnake was very popular in the American Colonies.

Benjamin Franklin hailed it as an American symbol because:

"...it never begins an attack, nor, when engaged never surrenders... it never wounds until it has given notice, even to an enemy, and cautioned them against treading on them... One of it's rattles singly is incapable of sounds, but the ringing of all 13 together is sufficient to alarm the boldest of men."