ieve, be found to contain principles worthy to
be transmitted to posterity. When you leave the
unimpaired, hereditary freehold to your children,
you do but half your duty. Both liberty and
property are precarious, unless the possessors
have sense and spirit enough to defend them.

"Be assured that the laws which protect us in
our civil rights, grow out of the constitution,
and they must fall or flourish with it. This is
not the cause of faction or of party, or of any
individual, but the common interest of every man
in Britain. Although the king should continue to
support his present system of government, the
period is not very distant at which you will have
the means of redress in your own power; it may be
nearer, perhaps, than any of us expect; and I
would warn you to be prepared for it...."

"The cause of America is, in a great measure, the
cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have and
will arise, which are not local, but universal,
and through which the principles of all lovers of
mankind are affected, and in the event of which,
their affections are interested. The laying a
country desolate with fire and sword, declaring
war against the natural rights of mankind, and
extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of
the earth, is the concern of every man to whom
nature hath given the power of feeling; of which
class, regardless of party censure, is THE
AUTHOR."

"You can not but conclude, without the
possibility of a doubt, that long parliaments are
the foundation of the undue influence of the
crown. This influence answers every purpose of
arbitrary power to the crown.... It promises every
gratification to avarice and ambition, and secures
impunity.... You are roused at last to a sense of
your danger; the remedy will soon be in your
power. If Junius lives you shall often be reminded
of it. If, when the opportunity presents itself,
you neglect to do your duty to yourselves and to
posterity, to God and to your country, I shall