Quote #5

I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.

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  1. Loyalty, in the heart and understanding of an englishman, is a rational attachment to the guardian of the laws.
  2. We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffe…
  3. The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have e…
  4. When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is direct…
  5. The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.
  6. There is a moment of difficulty and danger at which flattery and falsehood can no longer deceive, and simplicity itself can no longer be mi…
  7. One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.
  8. They [the Americans] equally detest the pageantry of a king, and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.

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