The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.
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.
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.