The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.