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

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.