“No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

Only peace between equals can last.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

We must believe the things We teach our children

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.

As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.

I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.

God save us from people who mean well.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.