If Taxes Are Laid Upon Us Without

A Nation Of Shopkeepers Are Very Seldom So Disinterested.

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.

He Who Is Void Of Virtuous Attachments In Private Life Is, Or Very Soon Will Be, Void Of All Regard For His Country. There Is Seldom An Instance Of A Man Guilty Of Betraying His Country, Who Had Not Before Lost The Feeling Of Moral Obligations In His Private Connections.

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.

A General Dissolution Of Principles And Manners Will More Surely Overthrow The Liberties Of America Than The Whole Force Of The Common Enemy.