It Is Therefore Recommended... To Set Apart

Our Unalterable Resolution Would Be To Be Free. They Have Attempted To Subdue Us By Force, But God Be Praised! In Vain. Their Arts May Be More Dangerous Then Their Arms. Let Us Then Renounce All Treaty With Them Upon Any Score But That Of Total Separation, And Under God Trust Our Cause To Our Swords.

If We Suffer Tamely A Lawless Attack Upon Our Liberty, We Encourage It, And Involve Others In Our Doom.

No People Ever Yet Groaned Under The Heavy Yoke Of Slavery, But When They Deserv'd It. ...the Truth Is, All Might Be Free If They Valued Freedom, And Defended It As They Ought. ...if Therefore A People Will Not Be Free; If They Have Not Virtue Enough To Maintain Their Liberty Against A Presumptuous Invader, They Deserve No Pity, And Are To Be Treated With Contempt And Ignominy.

One Battle Would Do More Towards A Declaration Of Independence Than A Long Chain Of Conclusive Arguments In A Provincial Convention Or The Continental Congress.

In Short, It Is The Greatest Absurdity To Suppose It In The Power Of One, Or Any Number Of Men, At The Entering Into Society, To Renounce Their Essential Natural Rights, Or The Means Of Preserving Those Rights; When The Grand End Of Civil Government, From The Very Nature Of Its Institution, Is For The Support, Protection, And Defence Of Those Very Rights; The Principal Of Which, As Is Before Observed, Are Life, Liberty, And Property.