Lyman Beecher quotes
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“Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.”
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“No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.”
-- Lyman BeecherSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 162, 1895.
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“We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.”
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“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”
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“[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.”
-- Lyman Beecher
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“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”
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“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
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Source : "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.
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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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