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

[America's] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.

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

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.