Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.