It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.