The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

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

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

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

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

Individual liberty is individual power.