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Nations are not influenced, as individuals may be, by disinterested friendships; but, when it is their interest to live in amity, we have little reason to apprehend any rupture.
Men may make mistakes, and learn from their mistakes.
Ideas acquire a momentum of their own.
Often in the casual remarks of great men one learns their true mind in an intimate way.
It is one thing to feel confident and it is another to impart that confidence to people who do not like your plan, and who feel the same confidence in their knowledge as you do in yours.
But the safety of the people of America against dangers from foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give just causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to invite hostility or insult.
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.
[S]hould things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?
While just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government its surest support.
While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!
