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 Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

We know the redemption must come.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.