The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you. It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

My mind is my own church.