God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow – man.
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.
Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
There is always room at the top.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.