We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes sympathy, and a little attention will show them, that those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office - and by personal conviction - I am sworn to uphold that tradition.