[m]en Will Be Free No Longer Then

All Might Be Free If They Valued Freedom, And Defended It As They Should.

It Is A Very Great Mistake To Imagine That The Object Of Loyalty Is The Authority And Interest Of One Individual Man, However Dignified By The Applause Or Enriched By The Success Of Popular Actions.

Among The Natural Rights Of The Colonists Are These: First A Right To Life, Secondly To Liberty, And Thirdly To Property; Together With The Right To Defend Them In The Best Manner They Can.

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.

Hence As A Private Man Has A Right To Say What Wages He Will Give In His Private Affairs, So Has A Community To Determine What They Will Give And Grant Of Their Substance For The Administration Of Public Affairs.