Let us convince our enemies that, as we are entered into the present contest for the defense of our liberties, so we are resolved, with the firmest reliance on Heaven for the justice of our cause, never to relinquish it, but rather to perish in the ruins of it. If we do remain firm...and are determined, at all hazards, that we will be free - I am persuaded under the gracious smiles of Providence, assisted by our own most strenuous endeavors, we shall finally succeed...and thereby establish the independence, the happiness, and the glory of the United States of America.
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous govern-ment, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
I have the most animating confidence that the present noble struggle for liberty will terminate gloriously for America. And let us play the man for our God, and for the cities of our God; while we are using the means in our power, let us humbly commit our righteous cause to the great Lord of the Universe, who loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity.
