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

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country.

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.

Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

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