Some states have lost their liberty, by particular accidents: but this calamity is generally owing to the decay of virtue. A people is travelling fast to destruction, when individuals consider their interests as distinct from those of the public. Such… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings,… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
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;… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never obtain an act to raise so trifling a sum as it must… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
If my property cannot be secure, in case others over whom I have no kind of influence, may take it from me by taxes,… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers,… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
As Congress is now to legislate for our extensive territory lately acquired, I pray to Heaven that they may build up the system of… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights,… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
