"There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature."

"Influence is not government."

"However, political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be e…"

"Dear Tench: We have had various conjectures about you. Some thought you were dead, others that you were married."

"The Army, as usual, are without Pay; and a great part of the Soldiery without Shirts; and tho' the patience of them is equally thread bear, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries."