All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World.

I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

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.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.