The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

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.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.