All That I Am My Mother Made

To A Man Of Liberal Education, The Study Of History Is Not Only Useful, And Important, But Altogether Indispensable, And With Regard To The History Contained In The Bible ...it Is Not So Much Praiseworthy To Be Acquainted With As It Is Shameful To Be Ignorant Of It.

The Constitution Had Provided That All The Public Functionaries Of The Union...should Be Under Oath Or Affirmation For Its Support. The Homage Of Religious Faith Was Thus Superadded To All The Obligations Of Temporal Law To Give It Strength.

It Is So Obvious To Every Reasonable Being That He Did Not Make Himself, And The World In Which He Inhabits Could As Little Make Itself, That The Moment We Begin To Exercise The Power Of Reflection, It Seems Impossible To Escape The Conviction That There Is A Creator.

A Barbarian Who Could Not Write A Sentence Of Grammar And Hardly Could Spell His Own Name.... One Of Our Tribe Of Great Men Who Turn Disease To Commodity...he Craves The Sympathy For Sickness As A Portion Of His Glory.

The Laws Of Man May Bind Him In Chains Or May Put Him To Death, But They Never Can Make Him Wise, Virtuous, Or Happy.