Leonard Bacon Quotes

United States, Preacher
February 19, 1802 – December, 24, 1881.

Reverend Leonard Bacon (February 19, 1802 – December 24, 1881) was an American Congregational preacher and writer. He held the pulpit of the First Church New Haven and was later professor of church history and polity at Yale College.

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If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

Leonard Bacon
'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'

Leonard Bacon
- Great
- Small
- Knowledge

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Leonard Bacon
- Art
- Game
- Effort
'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments, and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Leonard Bacon
- God
- Trying