The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.