His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.