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

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.

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

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

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