There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.