Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.