Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

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.

I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’‘Neither do I.’‘Then how can you believe anything at all?’‘I don’t know.

Adjusting our mindset for success is always at least half the battle. In the case of overcoming our fears, rather than being overcome by them, - it is 99% a war waged in our own head.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

Find comfort in the knowledge that no imitator ever comes off as well as the original.

All cell phones in the air 'cause I want to see you guys shine.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

When I take my Les Paul onstage, it's reliable. An SG could be different from night to night, but a Les Paul is so solid and reliable that you can trust it every night

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.