Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

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

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.