"History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living."
 
"Let all me have as much freedom in reason as may be, and true dealing, for it is the greatest comfort you can give them, where the very name of servitude will breed much ill blood, and become odious to God and man"
 
"He who does not work, will not eat. "
 
"Within is a country that may have the prerogative over the most pleasant places known, for large and pleasant navigable rivers, heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation..."