He Who Made All Men Hath Made

I Believe That No People Ever Yet Groaned Under The Heavy Yoke Of Slavery But When They Deserved It.

The Necessity Of The Times, More Than Ever, Calls For Our Utmost Circumspection, Deliberation, Fortitude, And Perseverance.

The Sum Of All Is, If We Would Most Truly Enjoy The Gift Of Heaven, Let Us Become A Virtuous People; Then Shall We Both Deserve And Enjoy It. While On The Other Hand, If We Are Universally Vicious And Debauched In Our Manners, Though The Form Of Our Constitution Carries The Face Of The Most Exalted Freedom, We Shall In Reality Be The Most Abject Slaves.

He Therefore Is The Truest Friend To The Liberty Of His Country Who Tries Most To Promote Its Virtue, And Who, So Far As His Power And Influence Extend, Will Not Suffer A Man To Be Chosen Into Any Office Of Power And Trust Who Is Not A Wise And Virtuous Man.

It Is In The Interest Of Tyrants To Reduce The People To Ignorance And Vice. For They Cannot Live In Any Country Where Virtue And Knowledge Prevail. The Religion And Public Liberty Of A People Are Intimately Connected; Their Interests Are Interwoven, They Cannot Subsist Separately; And Therefore They Rise And Fall Together. For This Reason, It Is Always Observable, That Those Who Are Combin'd To Destroy The People's Liberties, Practice Every Art To Poison Their Morals.