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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.

The Eyes Of Mankind Will Be Upon You To See Whether The Government, Which Is Now More Popular Than It Has Been For Many Years Past, Will Be Productive Of More Virtue Moral And Political. We May Look Up To Armies For Our Defense, But Virtue Is Our Best Security. It Is Not Possible That Any State Should Long Remain Free, Where Virtue Is Not Supremely Honored.

If Men, Through Fear, Fraud, Or Mistake, Should In Terms Renounce Or Give Up Any Natural Right, The Eternal Law Of Reason And The Grand End Of Society Would Absolutely Vacate Such Renunciation. The Right To Freedom Being The Gift Of Almighty God, It Is Not In The Power Of Man To Alienate This Gift And Voluntarily Become A Slave.

We Cannot Make Events. Our Business Is Wisely To Improve Them. Mankind Are Governed More By Their Feeling Than By Reason. Events Which Excite Those Feelings Will Produce Wonderful Effects.

The Utopian Schemes Of Leveling And A Community Of Goods, Are As Visionary And Impractical As Those Which Vest All Property In The Crown. These Ideas Are Arbitrary, Despotic, And, In Our Government Unconstitutional.