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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them ...

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.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

'Tis done. We have become a nation.

Beer is a wholesome liquor ... it abounds with nourishment

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

Some talked,some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion ...

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.