A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money