“When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.”

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

It is not your job to carry every burden to heal every heart-your love is a divine blessing.

God heals what you hide he keeps blessing your life.

In this world of inconsistency, He is a constant blessing.

And sometimes we itself never let blessings fall on our head.

Why do I see in a world gone blind? I always longed to find the answers, took chances. Asked for the veil to thin. Fault? Mine. Left questioning; my eyes, blessings or curses?

I may not see or feel it instantly, but I know it’s there and with time that blessing will uncover itself.

You will never love another the same way, again. And I’m still trying to figure out if that’s a blessing or a tragedy.

My birth was a blessing. Sent to live and die on Earth; it’s a blessing. We each have a star; all you have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone sees it, you won’t be blinded.