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

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

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

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the world, of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its government, and give it all possible success and duration, consistent with the ends of His providence.