You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I am not a Virginian, I am an American.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast.

Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty-that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?