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.

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.

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.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

Where the Magic Awaits: The Worst Becomes the Absolute Best

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.