A Stout Heart, A Clear Conscience, And

May Our Country Be Always Successful, But Whether Successful Or Otherwise, Always Right.

In The American Hemisphere The Cause Of Freedom And Independence Has Continued To Prevail, And If Signalized By None Of Those Splendid Triumphs Which Had Crowned With Glory Some Of The Preceding Years It Has Only Been From The Banishment Of All External Force Against Which The Struggle Had Been Maintained. The Shout Of Victory Has Been Superseded By The Expulsion Of The Enemy Over Whom It Could Have Been Achieved.

The Great Problem Of Legislation Is, So To Organize The Civil Government Of A Community... That In The Operation Of Human Institutions Upon Social Action, Self-love And Social May Be Made The Same.

The Declaration That Our People Are Hostile To A Government Made By Themselves, For Themselves, And Conducted By Themselves, Is An Insult.

The Laws Of Man May Bind Him In Chains Or May Put Him To Death, But They Never Can Make Him Wise, Virtuous, Or Happy.