Quotes from John Dickinson

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

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 their several orbits.

Then join 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.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.