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

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

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

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

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.

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry.