If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives.

Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but come from the King of Kings and the Lord of all the earth.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

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.

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

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