The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!

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.

The best thing about photography: it changes your point of view.

All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...

I never know where I'm headed when I'm working on a book.

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

I'm staunch. If you are lucky enough to be able to play for your country, it seems to make you even prouder of your roots and origins, and to me that's Wellington.

Focus on humanity, not on technology.

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.