We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief.

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

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

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. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!