I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

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

It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.