We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.

The Golden Age was never the present age.

Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.