Masonic Ideas Are The Precious Jewels Of

Blame-all And Praise-all Are Two Blockheads.

In These Sentiments, Sir, I Agree To This Constitution, With All Its Faults, If They Are Such; Because I Think A General Government Necessary For Us, And There Is No Form Of Government, But What May Be A Blessing To The People If Well Administered; And Believe Further, That This Is Likely To Be Well Administered For A Course Of Years, And Can Only End In Despotism, As Other Forms Have Done Before It, When The People Shall Become So Corrupted As To Need Despotic Government, Being Incapable Of Any Other.

Before Noah, Men Having Only Water To Drink, Could Not Find The Truth. Accordingly...they Became Abominably Wicked, And They Were Justly Exterminated By The Water They Loved To Drink. This Good Man, Noah, Having Seen That All His Contemporaries Had Perished By This Unpleasant Drink, Took A Dislike To It; And God, To Relieve His Dryness, Created The Vine And Revealed To Him The Art Of Making Le Vin. By The Aid Of This Liquid He Unveiled More And More Truth.

Remember Not Only To Say The Right Thing In The Right Place, But Far More Difficult Still, To Leave Unsaid The Wrong Thing At The Tempting Moment.

Your Argument Is Sound, Nothing But Sound.