To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.
The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God.
It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate. I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however.
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.