If Virtue & Knowledge Are Diffused Among

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.

He Who Made All Men Hath Made The Truths Necessary To Human Happiness Obvious To All. Our Forefathers Opened The Bible To All.

Could I Be Assured That America Would Remain Virtuous, I Would Venture To Defy The Utmost Efforts Of Enemies To Subjugate Her.

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.

It Does Not Take A Majority To Prevail... But Rather An Irate, Tireless Minority, Keen On Setting Brushfires Of Freedom In The Minds Of Men.