I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country and our world.
Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.
Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal and the glory of kings to search out. And men enjoy it to mark their days and celebrate their moments and stand with their brothers in the face of what life brings.
Your destiny is fulfilled as you invest in the destinies of others.
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.
All it takes for a contagious manly culture to form is for one genuine man to live out genuine manhood. It creates a model, something for other men to feed upon and pattern themselves after. It also gives other genuine men a vital connection that sustains and extends who they are.
I want to identify what a genuine man does—the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood—and then call men to do it.
The trumpet is forceful.
Earthbound souls know only the underside of the atmosphere in which they live. . . but go higher - above the dust and water vapor - and the sky turns dark until one can see the stars at noon.
You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing. ' I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in.
All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.