Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

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.