I Would Not Have Suffered My Name

The Constitution Is Not A Law, But It Empowers The People To Make Laws... The Constitution Tells Us What Shall Not Be A Lawful Tender... The Legislature Has Ceded Up To Us The Privilege Of Enacting Such Laws As Are Not Inconsistent With The Constitution Of The United States... The Different States, And Even Congress Itself, Have Passed Many Laws Diametrically Contrary To The Constitution Of The United States.

You Might As Well Baptize A Bag Of Sand As A Man, If Not Done In View Of The Remission Of Sins And Getting Of The Holy Ghost. Baptism By Water Is But Half A Baptism, And Is Good For Nothing Without The Other Half-that Is, Baptism Of The Holy Ghost.

I Am Tired Of The Misrepresentation, Calumny And Detraction, Heaped Upon Me By Wicked Men; And Desire And Claim, Only Those Principles Guaranteed To All Men By The Constitution And Laws Of The United States And Of Illinois.

Men Will Be Held Accountable For The Things Which They Have And Not For The Things They Have Not. ... All The Light And Intelligence Communicated To Them From Their Beneficent Creator, Whether It Is Much Or Little, By The Same They In Justice Will Be Judged, And ... They Are Required To Yield Obedience And Improve Upon That And That Only Which Is Given, For Man Is Not To Live By Bread Alone But By Every Word That Proceeds Out Of The Mouth Of God.

It Is A Time-honored Adage That Love Begats Love...cast Your Bread Upon The Waters And Ye Shall Receive It After Many Days, Increased To A Hundredfold.