Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.