K. Webster Quotes
Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest
If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics. Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats.
Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!
The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.
When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.
In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.
The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
We know that all must, in the end, stand by the side of the Divine. There is no escape from it, because that is His will.
We must beware of falling into the fatally common error of supposing that what we see is all there is to see.
You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.
England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.
The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.
It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.