Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.