Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward BeecherAny law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
Henry Ward BeecherAll the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
Henry Ward BeecherI have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
Henry Ward Beecher