The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.

Give credit to whom credit due.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no control ... The Militia is composed of free Citizens. There is therefore no danger of their making use of their Power to the destruction of their own Rights, or suffering others to invade them.