A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.