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 believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

I shall look for whatever success may attend my public service; and knowing that "except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain," with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit with humble but fearless confidence my own fate and the future destinies of my country.

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

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

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

If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.