Thank God, I also am an American!

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

As long as you're moving, it's easier to steer.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.