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.
I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called.
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.
The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.
If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management of the common concerns of a mighty nation, those doubts have been dispelled.
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom’s hallowed shade.