I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Let no man thirst for good beer.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection