Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.