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

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

The only way to experience an experience is to experience it

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

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.

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.

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.

Tis done. We have become a nation.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published.

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

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

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!

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

The longer we listen to one another – with real attention – the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

Bands who are in their early 20s today, they are living in their own time and they have a series of parameters they have to work around.

I think it’s hard sometimes for people to grapple with the real-life consequences of political change.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it’s absurd.

I’m really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!

American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is – along with Jazz – the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.

There is a tendency to want to isolate a little bit, from people that might look at me from a fan position, because it’s hard to be a real person around them, and I really want that when I’m not out on tour and in that sort of public eye.

Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It’s impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It’s a very important question: no acting.