I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.