The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.