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 constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. - John Dickinson
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
- John Dickinson
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. - John Dickinson
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.
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… - John Dickinson
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…
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against e… - John Dickinson
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against e…
Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us. - John Dickinson
Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.
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… - John Dickinson
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…
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 … - John Dickinson
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 …
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… - John Dickinson
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…
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - John Dickinson
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
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