"I can with truth assure you, that I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, make a scouting party my whole army."

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

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

"The liberties of a nation can be sure only when there is a firm conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God."

"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."