In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

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

...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

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 heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.