Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.
This is the last of earth! I am content.
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.
I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?
May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.
There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great mass of those who have risen to eminence by their profound wisdom and integrity have recognized and reverenced Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of the living God.
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.
Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.
The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.