A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go as far as it is possible for any man to go, what have you got to lose? Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."