Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.
For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.
In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination. . . without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so. . . . It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. . . . It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!
Bill Gates is a very rich man today. . . and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.