Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be f….

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

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will..

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretenc….

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH R….

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

Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can love to w….

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..

On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens..

That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, d….

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

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

Necessity has no law..

He who stops being better stops being good..

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry..

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in the nation ….

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..

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimpl….

A few honest men are better than numbers..

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I….

A man-of-war is the best ambassador..