Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

You only work right when you are fulfilling the essence of your creation

We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.

Don't judge a book by its movie.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.

He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.