It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.