Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.

No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.

Honesty is always the best policy.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.