Henry Ward Beecher
(American Clergyman)
- Date of Birth:
- June 24, 1813
- Date of Death:
- March 8, 1887
- Nationality:
- American
- Quote count:
- 261
- Times favorited:
- 319
Henry Ward Beecher was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th Century.
An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most famous American trials of the 19th century.
All quotes by Henry Ward Beecher 
(261 quotes found)
“All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”
