Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

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

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 proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

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

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.