More From Henry Ward Beecher
- "Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty."
- "The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are."
- "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven."
More In Marriage
- "Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit."― Brian Littrell
- "I think it’s best if there’s an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008."― Michele Bachmann
- "Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman."― Randy Neugebauer