I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service.

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.