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

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

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

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

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 ?