The Best Form Of Government Is That

If It Was Wise, Manly, And Patriotic For Us To Establish A Free Government, It Is Equally Wise To Attend To The Necessary Means Of Its Preservation.

The Crime Of Ingratitude Has Not Yet Stained, And I Trust Never Will Stain, Our National Character. You Are Considered By Them As Not Only Having Rendered Important Service In Our Own Revolution, But As Being, On A More Extended Scale, The Friend Of Human Rights, And Able Advocate Of Public Liberty. To The Welfare Of Thomas Paine, The Americas Are Not, Nor Can They Be, Indifferent.

A Little Flattery Will Support A Man Through Great Fatigue.

The American Continents, By The Free And Independent Condition By Which They Have Assumed And Maintained, Are Henceforth Not To Be Considered As Subjects For Future Colonization By Any European Powers.

Of The Liberty Of Conscience In Matters Of Religious Faith, Of Speech And Of The Press; Of The Trial By Jury Of The Vicinage In Civil And Criminal Cases; Of The Benefit Of The Writ Of Habeas Corpus; Of The Right To Keep And Bear Arms.... If These Rights Are Well Defined, And Secured Against Encroachment, It Is Impossible That Government Should Ever Degenerate Into Tyranny.