The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.