My Dear Sister, I Hope, When God

Government Is Founded Not On Force, As Was The Theory Of Hobbes; Nor On Compact, As Was The Theory Of Locke And Of The Revolution Of 1688; Nor On Property, As Was The Assertion Of Harrington. It Springs From The Necessities Of Our Nature, And Has An Everlasting Foundation In The Unchangeable Will Of God.

The Colonists Are By The Law Of Nature Free-born, As Indeed All Man Are, White Or Black...it Is A Clear Truth That Those Who Every Day Barter Away Other Men's Liberty Will Soon Care Little For Their Own.

My Dear Sister, I Hope, When God Almighty In His Righteous Providence Shall Take Me Out Of Time Into Eternity, That It Will Be By A Flash Of Lightning.

[the Passage Of The Sugar Act] Set People A Thinking, In Six Months, More Than They Had Done In Their Whole Lives Before.

Every One With This Writ May Be A Tyrant In A Legal Manner, Also May Control, Imprison, Or Murder Any One Within The Realm.