A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system, and encourages propensities destructive to its happiness. It wars against industry, frugality, and economy, and it fosters the evil spirits of extravagance and speculation.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.