Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

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

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

We know the redemption must come.