South Carolina will preserve its sovereignty, or be buried beneath its ruins. –Governor Robert Y. Hayne, 1832
I have lived too long not to know how reluctantly the clearest proposition is admitted against preconceived opinions. –Calhoun
Justice is truth in action. –Joubert
The primary object of the criminal law is not to secure liberty or privilege, but to take them away from those who have shown a contempt of the law by violating it. –Walter Clark, beloved Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Burn down your cities, but leave us our farms, and we will build them up again in a day; destroy the farms and grass will grow in the streets of the cities. –William Jennings Bryan
The Federalists [by refusing to admit Missouri to the Union with slavery] hope to inflame and mislead the public sentiment, and to revive the old spirit of hostility to the Southern States, which they hope will tend to either bring them into power or to dissolve the Union, a project which they have long cherished and will never abandon. –The Jeffersonian Hartford (Conn.) Times, 22 Feb 1820
Has anybody ever found Jimmy Buffett’s lost salt shaker? –cartoon
Better put out pride than fire. –Heraklitus
It is the doom of men that they forget. –Merlin in the film “Excalibur”
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after thie own lusts shall heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn their eyes away from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. — 2 Timothy, 4:3—4
A nation of sheep engenders a government of wolves. –Robert M. Peters
If only Longstreet had . . . . –O. Henry
