If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything.”Edward Johnston

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

Every word you’ve ever said, is written somewhere in my mind.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away.

When it comes to mentors, you can't beat survival.

I definitely believe in fate. And I believe what you put in is what you get in return. That's the way it's worked for me. As for the big picture - there's some sort of plan.

But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.