“Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived of their liberties, while they retain in their own hands, a power sufficient to any other power in the state.”

“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.”

“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.”

“It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.”

“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”

“Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.”

“Language as well as the faculty of speech was the immediate gift of God.”

“Facts which were new to me were daily presenting themselves to my mind.”

“[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.”

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

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