It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

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.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

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

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

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

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.