This is a quote from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickenson written in 1787.
"What have these colonies to ask, while they continue free? Or what have they to dread, but insidious attempts to subvert their freedom?
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, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away- that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away-that duties laid for the sole purpose of raising money are taxes-that attempts to lay such duties should be instantly and firmly opposed-that this opposition can never be effectual, unless it is the united effort of these provinces...."
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