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.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

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.

Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty, in matters spiritual and temporal is a thing that all men are clearly entitled to by the eternal and immutable laws of God and nature, as well as by the laws of nations and all well-grounded and municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former.

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

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.

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