The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

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

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.