Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

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

The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

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

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.