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.

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

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

National honor is national property of the highest value.

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

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

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.