I have too much respect for the intellect of my country to believe it.

The first object of human association is the improvement of the condition of the associated.

Roads and canals are among the most essential means of improving the condition of nations.

And a people which should deliberately, by the organization of its authorized power, deprive itself of the faculty of multiplying its own blessings, would be as wise as a creator who should undertake to constitute a human being without a heart." In addition to other claims, the friends of Mr.Adams urged his elevation to the presidency on the ground of locality.

During the thirty-six years which had passed since the adoption of the constitution, the General Government had been administered but four years by a northern President.
It was insisted with much force that the southern portion of the Republic had thus far exerted a disproportionate influence in the executive department of the nation.