Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.

Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.