When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.

Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.