What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.