In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

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.

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.

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish

At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.

I just like to play anything that's competitive. If I'm not competing against somebody, then I might as well play something I can enjoy.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.