Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep
John DickinsonYou can't actually hire and fire people inside of an open source community. Which means that getting people to work together is much more along the lines of making sure that people have the tools they need both to get their work done but also to know what is being done by other people and how to take that to their employer and tell that story to their employer and to show this is why the community is good and this is why we're working on these sort of things because it helps us over here.
John DickinsonWhat 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.
John DickinsonLet these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds โ that we cannot be happy, without being FREE โ that we cannot be free, without being secure in our propertyโ that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away โ that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away.
John Dickinson