Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.

In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.