How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.