...It is impossible, I say, for the human mind not to believe that there is in all this design, cause, and effect up to an Ultimate Cause-a Fabricator of all things, from matter and motion-their Preserver and Regulator while permitted to exist in their present forms-and their Regenerator into new and other forms.

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.