[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.