I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries of comforts of life.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.