William Hooper

“My cause is that of my country, and my life is at her service.”

“It is a trust which I shall endeavor to discharge with fidelity; my own ease and comfort I shall cheerfully sacrifice to the public good.”

“For my own part, I am for independence, entire and absolute, and I will be ever ready to join in the most vigorous measures to obtain it.”

“Our late unconstitutional restraints of trade have injured us very much, but our own internal police is still a greater grievance.”

“Whilst I am a freeman, I will not be a slave. The story of our wrongs is not of a day.”