Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.