John Witherspoon's Timeline: Life, Photos, and Key Events
1723
1775
on 5/17/1775
"There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage."
on 5/17/1775
"Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue."
1776
on 7/1776
"In my judgement it is not only ripe for the measure, but in danger of becoming rotten for the want of it."
1785
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