It Is Emphatically The Province And Duty

Let The End Be Legitimate, Let It Be Within The Scope Of The Constitution, And All Means Which Are Appropriate, Which Are Plainly Adapted To That End, Which Are Not Prohibited, But Consist With The Letter And Spirit Of The Constitution, Are Constitutional.

No Political Dreamer Was Ever Wild Enough To Think Of Breaking Down The Lines Which Separate The States And Compounding The American People Into One Common Mass.

A Constitution Is Framed For Ages To Come, And Is Designed To Approach Immortality As Nearly As Human Institutions Can Approach It.

When A Law Is In Its Nature A Contract, When Absolute Rights Have Vested Under That Contract, A Repeal Of The Law Cannot Divest Those Rights.

The Institution Of Masonry Ought To Be Abandoned As One Capable Of Much Evil, And Incapable Of Producing Any Good Which Might Not Be Affected By Safe And Open Means.