The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.