No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.

I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born