Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.