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

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

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