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Give credit to whom credit due.
Let no man thirst for good beer.
What a glorious morning this is!
A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.
All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.
I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection
The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.
I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.
I believe that no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
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.
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.
What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
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.
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.
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.
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.
It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
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.
If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.