Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.