With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.
The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.
Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.
An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.