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

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.