Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, and make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections.

MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.