Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

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

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

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.