Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.