Lyman Beecher quotes:

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.