Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.
This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
[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!
The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of you now? Will he make you into a rat's liver? Will he make you into an insect's leg?' Tzu-Lai replied, 'The universe gave me my body so I may be carried, my life so I may work, my old age so I may repose, and my death so I may rest. To regard life as good is the way to regard death as good. . . . If I regard the universe as a great furnace and creation as a master foundryman, why should anywhere I go not be all right?'
Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.
Sherry, the civilized drink.