What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.