The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

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

And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.