A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?