If you can't sent money, send tobacco.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.