Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation . . .

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.