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.

Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us.

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

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

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

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

Individual liberty is individual power.