Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family.

Always speak the truth.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.