It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely from the political government the institution which has its object the support and diffusion of religion

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives...the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our nation.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like";

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax