The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

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.