What A Glorious Morning This Is!

Of How Much Importance Is It, That The Utmost Pains Be Taken By The Public To Have The Principles Of Virtue Early Inculcated On The Minds Even Of Children, And The Moral Sense Kept Alive.

Shame On The Men Who Can Court Exemption From Present Trouble And Expense At The Price Of Their Own Posterity's Liberty!

A General Dissolution Of Principles And Manners Will More Surely Overthrow The Liberties Of America Than The Whole Force Of The Common Enemy.

In A State Of Tranquility, Wealth, And Luxury, Our Descendants Would Forget The Arts Of War And The Noble Activity And Zeal Which Made Their Ancestors Invincible. Every Art Of Corruption Would Be Employed To Loosen The Bond Of Union Which Renders Our Resistance Formidable. When The Spirit Of Liberty Which Now Animates Our Hearts And Gives Success To Our Arms Is Extinct, Our Numbers Will Accelerate Our Ruin And Render Us Easier Victims To Tyranny.

Hence As A Private Man Has A Right To Say What Wages He Will Give In His Private Affairs, So Has A Community To Determine What They Will Give And Grant Of Their Substance For The Administration Of Public Affairs.