Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Writing a novel is easy… writing checks is hard.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

Somewhere between apathy and anarchy lies the thinking human being.