To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.

Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.