“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”
“No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.”
“We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present”
“...no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.”
“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”
“If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.”