There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.

The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.