Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.