"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"I die hard, but I am not afraid to go."

"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."

"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the too frequent changes of officers."

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."