"If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God."

"If I should conceive myself to be of too much importance to the cause, and to be unwilling to make such sacrifices as the crisis may require, it would be a proof of my unworthiness."

"The path of my future life is now marked out. I shall retire to my farm, and never cease to pray for the prosperity of my country."

"Without an humble imitation of the divine author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation."

"whether he was a whig or a tory?"