If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.