To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no God... Were a man impressed as fully and strongly as he ought to be with the belief of a God, his moral life would be regulated by the force of belief; he would stand in awe of God and of himself, and would not do the thing that could not be concealed from either.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.