America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

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

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

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