Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.

When bad men combine the good must associate else they will fall one by one an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception temptation accusation even persecution.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying even if by chance they are later proved right.'

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.