The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

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.