It has been a rule with me, from which I have rarely departed, to pass in silence the misrepresentations to which I have been subject, in the discharge of my public duties; leaving it to my after conduct to stamp the charge of falsehood on them. –Calhoun
Whenever I need a psychiatrist I go fly fishing, holding a boat to be superior to a couch any day of the week. –Havilah Babcock
Never expect politicians to find solutions to a problem. Perpetuating problems is part of their power-seeking strategy. –Clyde Wilson
Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. –inscription for Thermopylae
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd. –Zechariah, 10:2
America must be kept American. –Calvin Coolidge
Easy to march into, hard to march out of. –Attributed to Alexander the Great about the region now known as Afghanistan.
It is impossible to move forward without spiritual, cultural, and national self-determination. We can see how many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization. They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities . . . . –Vladimir Putin
There’s no place like the South. –St. Petersburg Times, 24 Mar 2002
The savage [i.e., Yankee] is full of prejudices, because he is full of ignorance. His intellectual horizon is necessarily limited; he sees but little, and judges only by what he sees. His own little world is the world, and he tries all the rest of mankind by that standard. –Admiral Raphael Semmes
Southerners, in reality, do not fear Yankee ridicule. What we fear most is our own reaction to the aggression and ignorance of the Yankee. Failing to understand the habit of courtesy, Northerners have no idea how angry a Southerner may be or how much strength of will is required to remain civil when he wants to smack the smugness off a Northern face. –Joyce Bennett
If only Longstreet had…. –O. Henry
