National honor is national property of the highest value.

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

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.

Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.