This is the last of earth! I am content.

A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

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