America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.