Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.