I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.