The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

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

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

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

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

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

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