Chingachgook Grasped The Hand That,

It Is A Governing Principle Of Nature, That The Agency Which Can Produce Most Good, When Perverted From Its Proper Aim, Is Most Productive Of Evil.

Ignorance And Superstition Ever Bear A Close And Mathematical Relation To Each Other.

Liberty Is Not A Matter Of Words, But A Positive And Important Condition Of Society. Its Greatest Safeguard After Placing Its Foundations On A Popular Base, Is In The Checks And Balances Imposed On The Public Servants.

Advice Is Not A Gift, But A Debt That The Old Owe To The Young.

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.