The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

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.

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.

When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

You don't need a time machine to live in the moment.

A vampire is branding girls, okay?" I ignored his refusal. "Something about that just feels wrong to me." "I would hope so.

Anybody from the public can come in and observe ballots being processed and those votes being counted in elections officials' offices in any county in any state in the nation.

It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

It's the independent movies. Most of these people never even got a wrap party on their movie.

I love uplifting television.