The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

The Bible makes the best people in the world.

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.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.