We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.