When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
The man is free who is protected from injury.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
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.