If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.

We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose “the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere”?