3 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes on Society

Henry Ward Beecher quotes on society

5. Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

7. When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

8. The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.