"Sir, I go on with my Considerations upon liberty, to shew that all Civil Virtue and Happiness, every moral Excellency, all Politenenss, all good Arts and Sciences, are produced by Liberty"
Cato’s Letters 1721
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Gary L Marshall
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"From my infancy I was taught to love humanity and liberty. Enquiry and experience have since confirmed my reverence for the lessons then given me, by convincing me more fully of their truth and excellence. Benevolence towards mankind excites wishes for their welfare, and such wishes endear the means of fulfilling them. These can be found in liberty only, and therefore her sacred cause ought to be espoused by every man, on every occasion, to the utmost of his power. As a charitable, but poor person does not withhold his mite because he cannot relieve all the distresses of the miserable, so should not any honest man suppress his sentiments concerning freedom, however small their influence is likely to be. Perhaps he “may touch some wheel,” that will have an effect greater than he could reasonably expect. . . ."
John Dickinson
Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania
to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
1768
