All John Dickinson Quotes
- We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,… Consent
- Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. Absolutely
- The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all… All
- Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and… All
- The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger… Adequate
- 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… All
- 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… Benefits
- What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only… All
- 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
- 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… Administration
- Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. Becoming
- 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… Constitution
- Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. Cause
- Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. All
- What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd. Change
- 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… Abject
- There is no treasure but Truth, there is no Truth but Wisdom. There is no Wisdom, but from Learning, and Learning is won by the… Days
- Let the Angels lead me to you, if only they fly in this land. Angels
- 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… All
- 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… Accidents
- For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never obtain an act to raise so trifling a sum as it must do,… Act
- I shall be extremely sorry, if any man mistakes my meaning in any thing I have said. Officers employed by the crown are, while according… According
- For as long as the products of our labor and the rewards of our care, can properly be called our own, so long it will… Called
- With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which… Animating
- We cannot be happy, without being free, that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property, that we cannot be secure in our… Consent