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

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.