Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.