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

Individual liberty is individual power.

The attainment of knowledge is the high and exclusive attribute of man, among the numberless myriads of animated beings, inhabitants of the terrestrial globe. On him alone is bestowed, by the bounty of the Creator of the universe, the power and the capacity of acquiring knowledge. Knowledge is the attribute of his nature which at once enables him to improve his condition upon earth, and to prepare him for the enjoyment of a happier existence hereafter.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.