Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away.