I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

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

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Righteousness alone can exalt them [America] as a nation. Reader! Whoever thou art, remember this, and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself and encourage it in others.

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?