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.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.