[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.

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

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

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.

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

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.