No Man Has Ever Yet Been Hanged

A Government For The People Must Depend For Its Success On The Intelligence, The Morality, The Justice, And The Interest Of The People Themselves.

I Feel Obliged To Withhold My Approval Of The Plan To Indulge In Benevolent And Charitable Sentiment Through The Appropriation Of Public Funds ... I Find No Warrant For Such An Appropriation In The Constitution.

Minds Do Not Act Together In Public; They Simply Stick Together; And When Their Private Activities Are Resumed, They Fly Apart Again.

I Can Find No Warrant For Such An Appropriation In The Constitution, And I Do Not Believe That The Power And Duty Of The General Government Ought To Be Extended To The Relief Of Individual Suffering Which Is In No Manner Properly Related To The Public Service Or Benefit.

And Let Us Not Trust To Human Effort Alone, But Humbly Acknowledging The Power And Goodness Of Almighty God, Who Presides Over The Destiny Of Nations, And Who Has At All Times Been Revealed In Our Country's History, Let Us Invoke His Aid And His Blessings Upon Our Labors.