There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.