I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.
Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.
It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?
With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.
We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.
I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.
He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.
Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!
About time you grew up and became a vampire like the rest of us.
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.