Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

Disunion by force is treason.

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges—to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful— the humble members of society—the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.