No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power not longer susceptible of any definition.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.