"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
"Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor."
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Source: The Liberty Song (song) (1768). United we stand, divided we fall! became a slogan of the American Revolution.
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"Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits."
"Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away."
"The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended."
"Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us."
"Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them."