“Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.”

Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.

Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Those which we call necessary institutions are simply no more than institutions to which we have become accustomed.

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Faith is unflinching trust in something divine.

Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.

I am the drop that contains the ocean.