Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

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

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.