There are two powers only which are sufficient to control men, and secure the rights of individuals and a peaceable administration; these are the combined force of religion and law, and the force or fear of the bayonet.

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

Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.