Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

We cannot escape history.

Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.