Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.

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

We know the redemption must come.

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.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

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