Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.

I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.