Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.