Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity... and leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.

But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

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

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

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.