I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

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 framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.