If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

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

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.