"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"My dear Gov. Lee: You have exchanged the rugged field of Mars for the soft and pleasurable bed of Venus."

"The path of my future life is now marked out. I shall retire to my farm, and never cease to pray for the prosperity of my country."

"Without an humble imitation of the divine author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation."