We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.