Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.'

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!