The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation.

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.