Lyman Beecher

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No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
- Lyman Beecher
Collection: Politics
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
- Lyman Beecher
Collection: Alone
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
- Lyman Beecher
Collection: Science
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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.
- Lyman Beecher
Collection: Law
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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
Collection: Cutting
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Eloquence is logic on fire.
- Lyman Beecher
Collection: Fire
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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
Collection: Running