Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.