John Witherspoon Quotes

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

~ John Witherspoon

Men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the temper of the sinner is contrary to the one, so the outrages of the sinner are able to defeat the other; than which nothing can be more false.

~ John Witherspoon

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of men.

~ John Witherspoon

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

~ John Witherspoon