[Rights] are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives. In short, they are founded on the immutable maxims of reason and justice. --John Dickinson, A Warning to the Colonies (Of the Right to Freedom; and of Traitors), 1766
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