I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

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.

Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.