A Well-regulated Militia, Composed Of The Body

Every Master Of Slaves Is Born A Petty Tyrant. They Bring The Judgment Of Heaven On A Country. As Nations Can Not Be Rewarded Or Punished In The Next World They Must Be In This. By An Inevitable Chain Of Causes & Effects Providence Punishes National Sins, By National Calamities.

I Begin To Grow Heartily Tired Of The Etiquette And Nonsense So Fashionable In This City.

I Thank God, I Have Been Able, By Adopting Principles Of Strict Economy And Frugality, To Keep My Principal, I Mean My Country-estate, Unimpaired.

It Is Contrary To The Principles Of Reason And Justice That Any Should Be Compelled To Contribute To The Maintenance Of A Church With Which Their Consciences Will Not Permit Them To Join, And From Which They Can Derive No Benefit; For Remedy Whereof, And That Equal Liberty As Well Religious As Civil, May Be Universally Extended To All The Good People Of This Commonwealth.

Nothing So Strongly Impels A Man To Regard The Interest Of His Constituents, As The Certainty Of Returning To The General Mass Of The People, From Whence He Was Taken, Where He Must Participate In Their Burdens.