If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatised from them.