Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.