Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth; whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

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