We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

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

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.