"Our cause is just, Our union is perfect."

"It is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, g…"

"Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness, as you confess those invaded by the Stamp Act …"

"Let us take care of our rights, and we therein take care of our property. 'Slavery is ever preceded by sleep.'"

"Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received fr…"

"If it was possible for men who exercise their reason, to believe that the divine Author of our existence intended a p…"

"We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers or re…"

"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that, exe…"

"These excellent Letters,‭ ‬which contain much seasonable instruction,‭ ‬are said to be written by John Dickinson,‭ ‬E…"

"Individual rights have been recognized by our jurisprudence only after long and costly struggles. They should not be …"