The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

I hold it certain that to open the doors of truth and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors to prevent their manacling the people with their own consent.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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