It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!

The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

I'm a big fan of bringing the outdoors in!

As long as I could pitch a little, no one cared that I was getting drunk.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.

Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.

We read books to find out who we are.