7 Quotes by Lyman Beecher

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

Eloquence is logic on fire.