We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

The LORD is the help of my life

I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.

You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more important than how people see you on the outside.

There never was night that had no morn.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.