All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.