If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

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

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.