If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

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.