Each State Enjoys Sovereign Power.

I Anticipate The Day When To Command Respect In The Remotest Regions It Will Be Sufficient To Say I Am An American. Our Flag Shall Then Wave In Glory Over The Ocean And Our Commerce Feel No Restraint But What Our Own Government May Impose. Happy Thrice Happy Day. Thank God, To Reach This Envied State We Need Only To Will. Yes My Countrymen. Our Destiny Depends On Our Will. But If We Would Stand High On The Record Of Time That Will Must Be Inflexible.

I Look Forward Serenely To The Course Of Events, Confident That The Fountain Of Supreme Wisdom And Virtue Will Provide For The Happiness Of His Creatures... Whenever The Present Storm Subsides, I Shall Rush With Eagerness Into The Bosom Of Private Life, But While It Continues, And While My Country Calls For The Exertion Of That Little Share Of Abilities, Which It Has Pleased God To Bestow On Me, I Hold It My Indispensable Duty To Give Myself To Her.

Religion Is The Solid Basis Of Good Morals; Therefore Education Should Teach The Precepts Of Religion, And The Duties Of Man Toward God.

There Must Be Religion. When That Ligament Is Torn, Society Is Disjointed And Its Members Perish... [t]he Most Important Of All Lessons Is The Denunciation Of Ruin To Every State That Rejects The Precepts Of Religion.

If The People Should Elect, They Will Never Fail To Prefer Some Man Of Distinguished Character, Or Services; Some Man, If He Might So Speak Of Continental Reputation.