The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.

Some boast of being friends to government I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles let them double their reward.

Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!

...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.

I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!

I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.