The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.

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.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.