Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

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.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

If you can't sent money, send tobacco.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.