Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Believers themselves are the point of continuity between creation and the new creation.

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Because you pray after you play.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

That's when I began drinking coffee. I was hung up on every little thing. I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home. Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me.

When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.