The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.