"It is our duty to endeavor
always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be
done by were we in their circumstances; to do justly, to love mercy, and to
walk humbly before God. These are some of the laws of nature which every man in
the world is bound to observe, and which whoever violates exposes himself to
the resentment of mankind, the lashes of his own conscience, and the judgment
of Heaven. This plainly shows that the highest state of liberty subjects us to
the law of nature and the government of God."
--Samuel West, On the Right to Rebel
Against Governors, 1776
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