At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.