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.

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.

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.

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.

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

The purpose of road traffic is speed, not safety.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

There's nowhere I won't go. As long as it's horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.

The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual.