I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United States will have to be attributed to slavery. For some years before the war began it was a trite saying among some politicians that "A state half slave and half free cannot exist. " All must become slave or all free, or the state will go down. I took no part myself in any such view of the case at the time, but since the war is over, reviewing the whole question, I have come to the conclusion that the saying is quite true.
The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.
Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.
I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.
I can be very shy. . . but when I'm around people I know, I can be extremely loud.
No one to hear, you might as well scream.
When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.
Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking. And just as we need to intensify our efforts to combat drug trade and human trafficking, we also need to intensify our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking. . . They all need to be addressed through bold and consistent actions by the international community.