We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.