The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.

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

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.