Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.

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.

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.