. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else you'll never be happy.

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.