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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do—then do it with all your strength.

Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.

Do not suffer your good nature […] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.