The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth...
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.
We know the redemption must come.
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.
Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?
I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!
Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.
There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.
This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
Individual liberty is individual power.
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.