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 heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

A national language is a band of national union.

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

[T]he Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis, or rather the source of all genuine freedom in government. . . . and I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable in which the principles of that religion have not a controlling influence.

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