Great Innovations Should Not Be Forced On

To Every Obstacle Oppose Patience, Perseverance And Soothing Language.

Question Boldly Even The Existence Of God.

Circumstances Sometimes Require, That Rights The Most Unquestionable Should Be Advanced With Delicacy.

We Do, Then, Most Solemnly Before God And The World Declare That Regardless Of Every Consequence, At The Risk Of Every Distress, The Arms We Have Been Compelled To Assume We Will Use With Perseverance, Exerting To Their Utmost Energies All Those Powers Which Our Creator Hath Given Us To Preserve That Liberty Which He Committed To Us In Sacred Deposit And To Protect From Every Hostile Hand Our Lives And Our Properties.

Government As Well As Religion Has Furnished Its Schisms, Its Persecutions And Its Devices For Fattening Idleness On The Earnings Of The People.