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

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.