The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

Thomas Jefferson survives.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!