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It Bodes Very Ill For Government When Men Are Exalted To Places Of High Trust Through Their Own Solicitations. He Only Fills A Place With Dignity Who Is Invited To It By His Fellow Citizens From The Experience They Have Had Of His Adequate Abilities.

In Short, It Is The Greatest Absurdity To Suppose It In The Power Of One, Or Any Number Of Men, At The Entering Into Society, To Renounce Their Essential Natural Rights, Or The Means Of Preserving Those Rights; When The Grand End Of Civil Government, From The Very Nature Of Its Institution, Is For The Support, Protection, And Defence Of Those Very Rights; The Principal Of Which, As Is Before Observed, Are Life, Liberty, And Property.

The Next Step May Be Fatal To Us. Let Us Then Act Like Wise Men, Calmly Look Around Us And Consider What Is Best To Be Done...let Associations And Combinations Be Everywhere Set Up To Consult And Recover Our Just Rights.

[t]he Importance Of Piety And Religion; Of Industry And Frugality; Of Prudence, Economy, Regularity And An Even Government; All . . . Are Essential To The Well-being Of A Family.

The Diminution Of Public Virtue Is Usually Attended With That Of Public Happiness, And The Public Liberty Will Not Long Survive The Total Extinction Of Morals.