All Men Have A Right To Remain

And If A Minister Shall Usurp The Supreme And Absolute Govern Ment Of America, And Set Up His Instructions As Laws In The Colonies, And Their Governors Shall Be So Weak Or So Wicked, As For The Sake Of Keeping Their Places, To Be Made The Instruments In Putting Them In Execu Tion, Who Will Presume To Say That The People Have Not A Right, Or That It Is Not Their Indispensible Duty To God And Their Country, By All Rational Means In Their Power To Resist Them.

The Right To Freedom Is The Gift Of God Almighty....the Rights Of The Colonists As Christians May Be Best Understood By Reading, And Carefully Studying The Institutes Of The Great Lawgiver And Head Of The Christian Church: Which Are To Be Found Clearly Written And Promuligated In The New Testament.

We May Look Up To Armies For Defence, But Virtue Is Our Best Security. It Is Not Possible That Any State Should Long Remain Free, Where Virtue Is Not Supremely Honord.

I Would Advise Persisting In Our Struggle For Liberty, Though It Were Revealed From Heaven That Nine Hundred And Ninety-nine Men Were To Perish, And Only One Of A Thousand To Survive And Retain His Liberty. One Such Freeman Must Possess More Virtue, And Enjoy More Happiness, Than A Thousand Slaves.

If Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty, The Tranquility Of Servitude Than The Animated Contest Of Freedom - Go Home From Us In Peace. We Ask Not Your Counsels Or Arms. Crouch Down And Lick The Hands Which Feed You. May Your Chains Sit Lightly Upon You, And May Posterity Forget That You Were Our Countrymen!