I Shall Have The Liberty To Think

The Study And Practice Of Law ... Does Not Dissolve The Obligations Of Morality Or Of Religion.

People And Nations Are Forged In The Fires Of Adversity.

Neither My Father Or Mother, Grandfather Or Grandmother, Great Grandfather Or Great Grandmother, Nor Any Other Relation That I Know Of, Or Care A Farthing For, Has Been In England These One Hundred And Fifty Years; So That You See I Have Not One Drop Of Blood In My Veins But What Is American.

Yesterday, The Greatest Question Was Decided Which Ever Was Debated In America; And A Greater Perhaps Never Was, Nor Will Be, Decided Among Men. A Resolution Was Passed Without One Dissenting Colony, That Those United Colonies Are, And Of Right Ought To Be, Free And Independent States.

It Is Folly To Anticipate Evils, And Madness To Create Imaginary Ones.