Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.