Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.