Occupation: Former American Senator Birth: February 6, 1818 Death: February 28, 1901
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne..
The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it..
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines..
Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material..
The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpo….
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinanc….