That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.