Let No Man Thirst For Good Beer.

Is It Not High Time For The People Of This Country Explicitly To Declare, Whether They Will Be Freemen Or Slaves? It Is An Important Question Which Ought To Be Decided. It Concerns Us More Than Any Thing In This Life. The Salvation Of Our Souls Is Interested In The Event: For Wherever Tyranny Is Establish'd, Immorality Of Every Kind Comes In Like A Torrent. It Is In The Interest Of Tyrants To Reduce The People To Ignorance And Vice.

We Boast Of Our Freedom, And We Have Your Example For It. We Talk The Language We Have Always Heard You Speak.

And If We Now Cast Our Eyes Over The Nations Of The Earth, We Shall Find That, Instead Of Possessing The Pure Religion Of The Gospel, They May Be Divided Either Into Infidels, Who Deny The Truth; Or Politicians Who Make Religion A Stalking Horse For Their Ambition; Or Professors, Who Walk In The Trammels Of Orthodoxy, And Are More Attentive To Traditions And Ordinances Of Men Than To The Oracles Of Truth.

In A State Of Tranquility, Wealth, And Luxury, Our Descendants Would Forget The Arts Of War And The Noble Activity And Zeal Which Made Their Ancestors Invincible. Every Art Of Corruption Would Be Employed To Loosen The Bond Of Union Which Renders Our Resistance Formidable. When The Spirit Of Liberty Which Now Animates Our Hearts And Gives Success To Our Arms Is Extinct, Our Numbers Will Accelerate Our Ruin And Render Us Easier Victims To Tyranny.

The Natural Liberty Of Man Is To Be Free From Any Superior Power On Earth, And Not To Be Under The Will Or Legislative Authority Of Man, But Only To Have The Law Of Nature For His Rule.