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

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection... and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.

As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.

Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bless, O Lord, all the people of this land.