The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

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

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

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.