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

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.

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.

Individual liberty is individual power.

About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have some appointment or favor to ask for their relatives.

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

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.