Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.