In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

Gough was a serious student but found time to gain a blue in rowing

A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play.

Everyday as we die, we must be reborn. If there were no death, life would be meaningless.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.

I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.