Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.