“Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.”

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

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

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

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

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

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

If it’s controversy out there, or if it’s some false stories out there, I want to clear it up. That’s just what I’m all about.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

I don’t mind being controversial. Even Jesus wasn’t loved in his day.

I don’t do things for the response or the controversy. I just live my life.