We Cannot Make Events. Our Business Is

The Sum Of All Is, If We Would Most Truly Enjoy The Gift Of Heaven, Let Us Become A Virtuous People; Then Shall We Both Deserve And Enjoy It. While On The Other Hand, If We Are Universally Vicious And Debauched In Our Manners, Though The Form Of Our Constitution Carries The Face Of The Most Exalted Freedom, We Shall In Reality Be The Most Abject Slaves.

We Cannot Make Events. Our Business Is Wisely To Improve Them.

The Name Of The Lord (says The Scripture) Is A Strong Tower; Thither The Righteous Flee And Are Safe (proverbs 18:10). Let Us Secure His Favor And He Will Lead Us Through The Journey Of This Life And At Length Receive Us To A Better.

And If A Minister Shall Usurp The Supreme And Absolute Govern Ment Of America, And Set Up His Instructions As Laws In The Colonies, And Their Governors Shall Be So Weak Or So Wicked, As For The Sake Of Keeping Their Places, To Be Made The Instruments In Putting Them In Execu Tion, Who Will Presume To Say That The People Have Not A Right, Or That It Is Not Their Indispensible Duty To God And Their Country, By All Rational Means In Their Power To Resist Them.

How Strangely Will The Tools Of A Tyrant Pervert The Plain Meaning Of Words!