No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

I give and bequeath my soul to Almighty God that gave it me, hoping that through the meritorious death and passion of our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ to receive absolution and remission for all my sins.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.