I Have Sworn Upon The Altar Of

Music, Drawing, Books, Invention & Exercise Will Be So Many Resources To You Against Ennui.

I Abhor War And View It As The Greatest Scourge Of Mankind.

The Sheep Are Happier Of Themselves, Than Under The Care Of Wolves.

We Have Counted The Cost Of This Contest, And Find Nothing So Dreadful As Voluntary Slavery.-honor, Justice, And Humanity, Forbid Us Tamely To Surrender That Freedom Which We Received From Our Gallant Ancestors, And Which Our Innocent Posterity Have A Right To Receive From Us. We Cannot Endure The Infamy And Guilt Of Resigning Succeeding Generations To That Wretchedness Which Inevitably Awaits Them, If We Basely Entail Hereditary Bondage Upon Them.

History, I Believe, Furnishes No Example Of A Priest-ridden People Maintaining A Free Civil Government.