Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

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

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

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.

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

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.