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…it is much better to be frightened now than to be killed hereafter.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others.
And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus [through slavery] to trample on the rights of the other…
[S]hould things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.
While just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support.
The blessing and protection of Heaven are at all times necessary but especially so in times of public distress and danger. The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier, defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
