To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
The only thing about a man that is a man. . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
As far as being married and what it means to me. . . it's nice knowing that I have a partner in life and that someone's got my back.
Sanford is a little redneck town north of Orlando. It's right off Lake Jessup. Lake Jessup is the most alligator infested lake in the United States and I live literally 510ths of a mile north of that lake right off the swamp down here. I've lived here since '94. When I left Nebraska my dad got a job at a private Christian school in West Palm Beach. People will say "You're not really a country boy. You're from Palm Beach, Florida. " Well, I moved to West Palm Beach, FL which is a far cry from Palm Beach, FL. There's a reason it's called West Palm Beach.
Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.