Nothing Is More Essential To The Establishment

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.

What A Man Has Honestly Acquired Is Absolutely His Own, Which He May Freely Give, But Cannot Be Taken From Him Without His Consent.

If Virtue & Knowledge Are Diffused Among The People, They Will Never Be Enslav'd. This Will Be Their Great Security.

It Is Therefore Recommended... To Set Apart Thursday The Eighteenth Day Of December Next, For Solemn Thanksgiving And Praise, That With One Heart And One Voice The Good People May Express The Grateful Feelings Of Their Hearts And Consecrate Themselves To The Service Of Their Divine Benefactor.

It Is Always Dangerous To The Liberties Of The People To Have An Army Stationed Among Them, Over Which They Have No Control ... The Militia Is Composed Of Free Citizens. There Is Therefore No Danger Of Their Making Use Of Their Power To The Destruction Of Their Own Rights, Or Suffering Others To Invade Them.