As a general rule, it may be affirmed that the man who never intrigues for office may be most safely entrusted with office...Such a man cannot desire….

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions..

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affect….

But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the….

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, i….

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor..

Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness….

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young..

Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not s….

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty..

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or negle….

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges….

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity t….

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to comp….

There iz no alternativ. Every possible reezon that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of wurds, stil exists in full force; and if a grad….

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws..

Ability is active power, or power to perform..

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor….

To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach himsel….

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language..

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our s….