When there is no vision, there is no hope.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.

I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to secure happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.