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Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.


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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.





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A man is a lion in his own cause.

A man is a lion in his own cause.



I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.



The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.

The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.



Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Men have had the vanity to pretend that the whole creation was made for them, while in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.



So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.



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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.



If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.



You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.




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