So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

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.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.