Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.
Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.