It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.
The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.
The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.
There are only two things I can't give up; one is coffee and the other is tobacco.
Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe!
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day, that He will so overrule all my intentions and actions and inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds and continue forever a united and happy people.
I listen to tons of hard rock and metal, like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc. , but I also listen to Beethoven and Mozart, to Discharge and the Bad Brains, and to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So I think there's merit to both the melodic punk and to the hardcore stuff too.
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.
I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.