Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

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

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.