They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.