Individual Liberty Is Individual Power, And As

Whenever Vanity And Gaiety, A Love Of Pomp And Dress, Furniture, Equipage, Buildings, Great Company, Expensive Diversions, And Elegant Entertainments Get The Better Of The Principles And Judgments Of Men And Women, There Is No Knowing Where They Will Stop, Nor Into What Evils, Natural, Moral, Or Political, They Will Lead Us.

Among The Sentiments Of Most Powerful Operation Upon The Human Heart, And Most Highly Honorable To The Human Character, Are Those Of Veneration For Our Forefathers And Of Love For Our Posterity.

A Gentleman Of One Of The First Fortunes Upon The Continent...sacrificing His Ease, And Hazarding All In The Cause Of His Country.

Roll, Years Of Promise, Rapidly Roll Round, Till Not A Slave Shall On This Earth Be Found.

The Conflict Between The Principle Of Liberty And The Fact Of Slavery Is Coming Gradually To An Issue. Slavery Has Now The Power, And Falls Into Convulsions At The Approach Of Freedom. That The Fall Of Slavery Is Predetermined In The Counsels Of Omnipotence I Cannot Doubt; It Is A Part Of The Great Moral Improvement In The Condition Of Man, Attested By All The Records Of History. But The Conflict Will Be Terrible, And The Progress Of Improvement Perhaps Retrograde Before Its Final Progress To Consummation.