Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

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

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

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

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 we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.