The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.