Thomas Paine: “It will serve to show how dismal the situation of a conquered people is, and that the only security is an effectual…”

They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.

Natural rights are those which appertain to man in right of his existence.

When it becomes necessary to do anything, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.