It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.