"A few honest men are better than numbers."

"I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else."

"Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged."

"God made them as stubble to our swords."

"Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry."

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."

"Nature can do more than physicians."

"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."

"We are Englishmen; that is one good fact."

"He who stops being better stops being good."

"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted."

"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government."

"The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies."

"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

"Necessity has no law."

"Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose."