Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life secondly to liberty and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth...
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
A public expectation it has to be said not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.