"When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I'll try again."

"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."

"It is well known that when I was in the service of my country, I never spared myself; and I do not mean to do it now."

"The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."

"I am unwilling to be the only man in whom the love of my Country is not the ruling principle."