No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
2.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher
3.
We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
Lyman Beecher
4.
Eloquence is logic on fire.
Lyman Beecher
5.
[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.
