Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?
We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.
You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!
It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.
The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.
The people “have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.”
The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.
The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.
The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
Duty is ours, results are God’s.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
Whoever tells the best story wins.