Independence Day Thoughts for King George
"The history of the present King ... is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States... He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good ... He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws ... He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people ... He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power ... He is at this time transporting large Armies ... to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation ... A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."