Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three forms of government commonly known in the schools, reserving as much of the monarchical splendor, the aristocratical independency, and the democratical freedom, as are necessary that each of these powers may have a control, both in legislation and execution, over the other two, for the preservation of the subject's liberty.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

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

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.