The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.