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.

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

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.

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

Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them.

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each political society should contribute such a share of their rights, as will, from a common stock of these rights, produce the largest quantity of benefits for them.