The people's safety is the law of God.
Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.
The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.
The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.