Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom; it has had to struggle and fight to preserve it. Freedom is not an heirloom or an antique; it is a life that must fight against the corrosive powers of death and nourish itself on the daily bread of goodness and virtue.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.