“Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

“In regard to this Great Book [the Bible], I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.”

“Not for ourselves, not for ourselves alone were we born.”

“Liberty, when it degenerates into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful catastrophe.”