People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary, and if you make a promise to pay money at a day certain, be sure to comply with it. If you do not, you lay yourself liable to have your feelings injured and your reputation destroyed with the just imputation of violating your word.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.