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.

A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

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

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.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God