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I trust the goodness of the cause, and the exertions of the people, and Divine protection, will give us that honorable peace for which we are contending.
Few people practice what they preach…
One mark of a great man is the power of making lasting impressions upon people he meets.
Some people will deny anything, but there are some denials that do not alter the facts.
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.
[T]he rational and peacable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.
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?
The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.
[O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
[T]he government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, and oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.
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.
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are.
