The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

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

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.