The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.