Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

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.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

If you can't sent money, send tobacco.