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

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

A gentleman of one of the first fortunes upon the continent...sacrificing his ease, and hazarding all in the cause of his country.