The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

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

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

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 freedom of the press is a valuable privilege, but the abuse of it in this country is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; and in addition to the evil of calumniating good men and giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth and of reputation.

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