All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.

A national language is a band of national union.

The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.