In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with n….

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow..

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for ru….

Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depr….

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic..

Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion..

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instr….

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not….

The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man th….

But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the informa….

Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition o….

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion..

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people can never be deprived o….