Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

Ataturk approved of the mevlevi dervish approach to God as being 'an expression of Turkish genius' that reclaimed Islam from what he saw as hide-bound, backward Arab tradition.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.