The Public Lands Are A Public Stock,

The Great Increase Of Our Population Throughout The Union Will Alone Produce An Important Effect, And In No Quarter Will It Be So Sensibly Felt As In Those In Contemplation.

The Best Form Of Government Is That Which Is Most Likely To Prevent The Greatest Sum Of Evil.

I Enter On The Trust To Which I Have Been Called By The Suffrages Of My Fellow-citizens With My Fervent Prayers To The Almighty That He Will Be Graciously Pleased To Continue To Us That Protection Which He Has Already So Conspicuously Displayed In Our Favor.

[in A Republic,] It Is Not The People Themselves Who Make The Decisions, But The People They Themselves Choose To Stand In Their Places.

How Prone All Human Institutions Have Been To Decay; How Subject The Best-formed And Most Wisely Organized Governments Have Been To Lose Their Check And Totally Dissolve; How Difficult It Has Been For Mankind, In All Ages And Countries, To Preserve Their Dearest Rights And Best Privileges, Impelled As It Were By An Irresistible Fate Of Despotism.