The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

Government is instituted for those who live under it.

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

True Christians are assured that no temptation (or trial) shall happen to them but what they shall be enabled to bear; and that the grace of Christ shall be sufficient for them.

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.

Life is a battle, and you either enter it armed, or surrender immediately.

I wish for world peace, because it's about as likely to occur anything else I can wish for.

Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I think that what we leave behind us is extremely important. I therefore spend a fair amount of time on the charitable front, and someday I hope to spend more time on it.

The war brought out all the art in me.

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.