A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.