Their Quotes

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.