Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.