Attend With Diligence And Strict Integrity To

When The Resolution Of Enslaving America Was Formed In Great Britain, The British Parliament Was Advised By An Artful Man [sir William Keith], Who Was Governor Of Pennsylvania, To Disarm The People. That It Was The Best And Most Effectual Way To Enslave Them. But That They Should Not Do It Openly; But To Weaken Them And Let Them Sink Gradually, By Totally Disusing And Neglecting The Militia.

No Free Government, Or The Blessings Of Liberty, Can Be Preserved To Any People, But By A Firm Adherence To Justice, Moderation, Temperance, Frugality, And Virtue.

All Power Is Lodged In, And Consequently Derived From, The People. We Should Wear It As A Breastplate, And Buckle It On As Our Armour.

Attend With Diligence And Strict Integrity To The Interest Of Your Correspondents And Enter Into No Engagements Which You Have Not The Almost Certain Means Of Performing.

Taught To Regard A Part Of Our Own Species In The Most Abject And Contemptible Degree Below Us, We Lose That Idea Of The Dignity Of Man Which The Hand Of Nature Had Implanted In Us, For Great And Useful Purposes.