I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

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

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

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

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.