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.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot be favorable to laws made for the protection of property. When this class becomes numerous, it becomes clamorous. It looks on property as its prey and plunder, and is naturally ready, at times, for violence and revolution.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

The man is free who is protected from injury.

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.