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

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

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.

Individual liberty is individual power.

The natural state of mankind ... and I know that this is a controversial idea... is freedom... And the proof is the lengths to which a man, woman, or child will go to regain it once lost. He will break loose his chains. He will decimate his enemies. He will try and try and try again, against all odds, against all prejudices.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

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