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

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

- 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…

- 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…

- John Dickinson

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

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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…

- John Dickinson

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

- John Dickinson