What A Man Has Honestly Acquired Is

I Would Advise Persisting In Our Struggle For Liberty, Though It Were Revealed From Heaven That Nine Hundred And Ninety-nine Men Were To Perish, And Only One Of A Thousand To Survive And Retain His Liberty. One Such Freeman Must Possess More Virtue, And Enjoy More Happiness, Than A Thousand Slaves.

For No People Will Tamely Surrender Their Liberties, Nor Can They Easily Be Subdued, Where Knowledge Is Diffusd And Virtue Preservd . On The Contrary, When People Are Universally Ignorant And Debauched In Their Manners, They Will Sink Under Their Own Weight, Without The Aid Of Foreign Invaders.

A Nation Of Shopkeepers Are Very Seldom So Disinterested.

If Ever A Time Should Come, When Vain And Aspiring Men Shall Possess The Highest Seats In Government, Our Country Will Stand In Need Of Its Experienced Patriots To Prevent Its Ruin.

And That The Said Constitution Be Never Construed To Authorize Congress To Infringe The Just Liberty Of The Press, Or The Rights Of Conscience; Or To Prevent The People Of The United States, Who Are Peaceable Citizens, From Keeping Their Own Arms; Or To Raise Standing Armies, Unless Necessary For The Defense Of The United States, Or Of Some One Or More Of Them; Or To Prevent The People From Petitioning, In A Peaceable And Orderly Manner, The Federal Legislature, For A Redress Of Grievances; Or To Subject The People To Unreasonable Searches And Seizures Of Their Persons, Papers Or Possessions.