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

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

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