The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not fit for public trust.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our Revolution. They existed before.