Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.

My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

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

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.