The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for preserving to them, in all their purity, the blessings of self-government, which we had assisted too in acquiring for them. If ever the earth has beheld a system of administration conducted with a single and steadfast eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to it, one which, protected by truth, can never know reproach, it is that to which our lives have been devoted.

Light and liberty go together.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.