But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.