Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

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. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.

It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.