The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.