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Quotation from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson
“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”
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter XII (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text)
The chain of principles that sums up the whole series, continued to the conclusion that anyone who sows division among the colonies is an enemy to his country.
Citation: "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" — John Dickinson, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter XII (1903 Outlook Company reprint of the 1768 Boston edition, Project Gutenberg text). (id letters-from-a-farmer-in-pennsylvania-q8)
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