"Mr Campbell whom I never saw (to my knowledge) has made a very formidable figure of the Commander in Chief giving him a sufficient portion of Terror in his Countenance."

"The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."

"I can not tell a lie. I did cut down the cherry tree."

"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."