We Understand Now, We've Been Made To

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.

Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins.

There Is Nothing So Deep And Nothing So Shallow Which Political Enmity Will Not Turn To Account.

The Attainment Of Knowledge Is The High And Exclusive Attribute Of Man, Among The Numberless Myriads Of Animated Beings, Inhabitants Of The Terrestrial Globe. On Him Alone Is Bestowed, By The Bounty Of The Creator Of The Universe, The Power And The Capacity Of Acquiring Knowledge. Knowledge Is The Attribute Of His Nature Which At Once Enables Him To Improve His Condition Upon Earth, And To Prepare Him For The Enjoyment Of A Happier Existence Hereafter.

I Speak As A Man Of The World To Men Of The World; And I Say To You, Search The Scriptures! The Bible Is The Book Of All Others, To Be Read At All Ages, And In All Conditions Of Human Life; Not To Be Read Once Or Twice Or Thrice Through, And Then Laid Aside, But To Be Read In Small Portions Of One Or Two Chapters Every Day, And Never To Be Intermitted, Unless By Some Overruling Necessity.