Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.