While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

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

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.