One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty.

He who seeks equity must do equity.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.