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

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

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!

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

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

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

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

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

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

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair, and after he died, the first day he come back here for to say hello to the peoples." He nice, the Jesus.

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.

This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.