"The American Crisis: These are the times that try men's souls."

"A man's religion is not to be inquired into, not even by the state itself."

"It [hereditary succession] appears under all the various characters of childhood, decrepitude, dotage, a thing at nurse, in leading-strings, or in crutches. It reverses the wholesome order of nature. …"

"The sun never shined on a cause of greater moment."

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."