[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

When there is no vision, there is no hope.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.