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A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

He who stops being better stops being good.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

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

God made them as stubble to our swords.

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

THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

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

Consider That Ye May Be Wrong.

Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.

There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.

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

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Those who stop being better stop being good.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

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

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

Subtlety may deceive you; intedrity never will.

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

Nature can do more than physicians.

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!

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.

Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.

Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you're only looking for a lucky break.

He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

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

Necessity has no law.

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.