The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

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

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.