Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary. Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in full conviction that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

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

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

There is always room at the top.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.