I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with too much resentment or too much horror. The man who can think of it with patience is a traitor in his heart and ought to be execrated [denounced] as one who adds the deepest hypocrisy to the blackest treason.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.