Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.

Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

War is science of destruction.

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

Your true potential in life will always be greater than your biggest goals and dreams.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it

I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery which Abraham Lincoln denounced from here over 150 years ago.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

Creativity takes a hit when people in a work group compete instead of collaborate.