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The Danger To Which The Success Of Revolutions Is Most Exposed, Is That Of Attempting Them Before The Principles On Which They Proceed, And The Advantages To Result From Them, Are Sufficiently Seen And Understood.

Immediate Necessity Makes Many Things Convenient, Which If Continued Would Grow Into Oppressions.

Now Is The Seedtime Of Continental Union, Faith And Honor. The Least Fracture Now, Will Be Like A Name Engraved With The Point Of A Pin On The Tender Rind Of A Young Oak; The Wound Would Enlarge With The Tree, And Posterity Read In It Full Grown Characters.

Public Credit Is Suspicion Asleep.

We Can Only Reason From What Is; We Can Reason On Actualities, But Not On Possibilities.