We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit.... Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of thy Son Jesus Christ.... Thou gavest thy Son to die for me, and hast given me assurance of salvation.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally to be expected from them in return, that they will [demonstrate] the innocence of their lives and the beneficence of their actions; for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society.