Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

Duty is ours, results are God's.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.