If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.

The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.

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

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