Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, on the conscience by the religious sanctions of an oath. As metes and bounds of government, they transcend all other land-marks, because every public usurpation is an encroachment on the private right, not of one, but of all.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.