They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.
The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people