Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.