Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

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

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.