Lyman Beecher Quotes

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

  Lyman Beecher

  Law, Vices, May

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

  Lyman Beecher

  Science, Controversial Topics, Achievement

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 162, 1895.

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

  Lyman Beecher

  Death, Running, Clever

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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

  Cutting, Support, Atheism

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• Eloquence is logic on fire.

  Lyman Beecher

  Fire, Logic, Eloquence

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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

  Lyman Beecher

  Running, Lying, Character

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