What A Man Has Honestly Acquired Is

We Cannot Make Events. Our Business Is Wisely To Improve Them. Mankind Are Governed More By Their Feeling Than By Reason. Events Which Excite Those Feelings Will Produce Wonderful Effects.

It Is In The Interest Of Tyrants To Reduce The People To Ignorance And Vice. For They Cannot Live In Any Country Where Virtue And Knowledge Prevail. The Religion And Public Liberty Of A People Are Intimately Connected; Their Interests Are Interwoven, They Cannot Subsist Separately; And Therefore They Rise And Fall Together. For This Reason, It Is Always Observable, That Those Who Are Combin'd To Destroy The People's Liberties, Practice Every Art To Poison Their Morals.

Our Unalterable Resolution Would Be To Be Free. They Have Attempted To Subdue Us By Force, But God Be Praised! In Vain. Their Arts May Be More Dangerous Then Their Arms. Let Us Then Renounce All Treaty With Them Upon Any Score But That Of Total Separation, And Under God Trust Our Cause To Our Swords.

A Standing Army, However Necessary It May Be At Some Times, Is Always Dangerous To The Liberties Of The People. Such Power Should Be Watched With A Jealous Eye.

Our Contest Is Not Only Whether We Ourselves Shall Be Free, But Whether There Shall Be Left To Mankind An Asylum On Earth For Civil And Religious Liberty.