Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.