Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.