If I Can Only Live To See

We Will Not Submit To Have Our Own Money Taken Out Of Our Pockets Without Our Consent; Because If Any Man Or Any Set Of Men Take From Us Without Our Consent Or That Of Our Representatives One Shilling In The Pound We Have Not Security For The Remaining Nineteen. We Owe To Our Mother Country The Duty Of Subjects But Will Not Pay Her The Submission Of Slaves.

All Power Is Vested In, And Consequently Derived From, The People; [...] Magistrates Are Their Trustees And Servants, And At All Times Amenable To Them.

That All Power Of Suspending Laws, Or The Execution Of Laws, By Any Authority, Without Consent Of The Representatives Of The People, Is Injurious To Their Rights, And Ought Not To Be Exercised.

One Of The First Principles Of Decorative Art Is That In All Manufactures Ornament Must Hold A Place Subordinate To That Of Utility; And When, By Its Exuberance, Ornament Interferes With Utility, It Is Misplaced And Vulgar.

That No Free Government, Nor The Blessings Of Liberty, Can Be Preserved To Any People, But By A Firm Adherence To Justice, Moderation, Temperance, Frugality, And Virtue; By Frequent Recurrence To Fundamental Principles; And By The Recognition By All Citizens That They Have Duties As Well As Rights, And That Such Rights Cannot Be Enjoyed Save In A Society Where Law Is Respected And Due Process Is Observed.