The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.