How slow and still the time did drag along.
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.