Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

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.

Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?