“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”

“Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in these it is not always found. It is there only when t...”

“I have never known any distress that an hours reading did not relieve.”

“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”

“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.”

“Virtue has need of limits.”

“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”

“Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirits power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements ...”

“. . . I realized with a growing and startling sense of clarity that the seminary was educating and training me for a world that no longer existed. Moreover, the posture of this particular brand of ...”

“She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.”

“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”

“War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”

“Many theologians believe the Gospel writers include miracle stories in order to prove that Jesus is divine. But miracles are not proof of deity. Many Old Testament prophets heal people and even rai...”