John Adams, in his diary, 1774:
I wander alone, and ponder. - I muse, I mope, I ruminate. - We have not Men, fit for the Times. We are deficient in Genius, in Education, in Gravel, in Fortune- in every Thing. I feel unutterable Anxiety. - God grant us Wisdom and Fortitude!
Should the Opposition be suppressed, should this Country submit, what Infamy and Ruin! God forbid. Death in any Form is less terrible.
Thomas Jefferson in a letter: 1775:
Believe me Dear Sir there is in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a Union with Gr. Britain than I do. But by the God that made me I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British parliament propose and in this I think I speak the sentiments of America. We want neither inducement nor power to declare and assert a seperation. It is will alone which is wanting and that is growing apace under the fostering hand of our king. One bloody campaign will probably decide everlastingly our future course; I am sorry to find a bloody campaign is decided on...we must drub you soundly before the sceptered tyrant will know we are not mere brutes, to crouch under his hand and kiss the rod with which he deigns to scourge us.
Tom Paines revolutionary tracts: 1775.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again...Tis not the concern of a day, a year or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seedtime of the Continental union.

The declaration of independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Lincoln stated about these words:" were applicable to all men and at all times...a rebuke and a stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression."

Jeffersons Bill no 82 : 1776:
Almighty God hath created the mind free...To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical...Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions of physics or geometry...The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction...Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself...She is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

God bless you!

Your quotes remind me of a passage in the Bible where the Lord Jesus christ told his listeners that if they chose not to worship HIM, that God was able to raise children for himself from stones.