Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor..

Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals; but co….

Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not ou….

The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against e….

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow..

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect..

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us..

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutio….

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room..

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, a….

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not on….

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall..

Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and Lord of all….

Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in ….

With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of thos….

You can't actually hire and fire people inside of an open source community. Which means that getting people to work together is much more along the l….

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greate….

Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom….

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth..

Let us take care of our rights and we therein take care of our prosperity. Slavery is ever preceded by sleep.