Keep cool; anger is not an argument..

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people..

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

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.

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 ….

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures..

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

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

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From th….

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

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

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

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of ….

If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be n….

I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension….

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and….

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….

Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Consti….

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruct….

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange..

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens..