To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history contained in the Bible ...it is not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with as it is shameful to be ignorant of it.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

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

It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.