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If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

What a glorious morning this is!

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

Give credit to whom credit due.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

Let no man thirst for good beer.

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

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.

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.