Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be consid…

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that t…

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to in…