The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Strong hearts and helpful hands are needed, and, fortunately, we have them in every part of our beloved country.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

The more profoundly we study this wonderful Book, and the more closely we observe its divine precepts, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

The photograph is always more interesting than what the photograph is of.

I want to thank the good lord for making me a yankee

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.