The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty-that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?