Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

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

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.