I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.