I Cannot However Help Repeating Piety, Because

Were The Talents And Virtues, Which Heaven Has Bestowed On Men, Given Merely To Make Then More Obedient Drudges, To Be Sacrificed To The Follies And Ambition Of A Few? Or, Were Not The Noble Gifts So Equally Dispensed With A Divine Purpose And Law, That They Should As Nearly As Possible Be Equally Exerted, And The Blessings Of Providence Be Equally Enjoyed By All?

Among The Natural Rights Of The Colonists Are These: First A Right To Life, Secondly To Liberty, And Thirdly To Property; Together With The Right To Defend Them In The Best Manner They Can.

And If A Minister Shall Usurp The Supreme And Absolute Govern Ment Of America, And Set Up His Instructions As Laws In The Colonies, And Their Governors Shall Be So Weak Or So Wicked, As For The Sake Of Keeping Their Places, To Be Made The Instruments In Putting Them In Execu Tion, Who Will Presume To Say That The People Have Not A Right, Or That It Is Not Their Indispensible Duty To God And Their Country, By All Rational Means In Their Power To Resist Them.

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.

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.