The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

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

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.