I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

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.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.