When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

The power of making war often prevents it.