The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

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 art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

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