There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.
I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if it happens in our day; if not, let us transmit to our descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for their unhappy lot and an abhorrence of slavery.
Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.