The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
I accept the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.
It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.
Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty
The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.
There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God - the Source of unalienable rights and the Policeman stationed in every human heart. . . But apparently, we don't believe in that sort of thing anymore.
No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
I like an ending that's both a door and a window.
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat. , Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur. ]