Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.