We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

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

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.