If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

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

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

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

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.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Negative emotions impact the human psyche

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

All my wife does is shop - once she was sick for a week, and three stores went under.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.