He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.
I know that money speaks more loudly than need.
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
Man is remembered by his deeds.
Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization. We come as ministering angels, not despots.
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
The essential doesn't change.
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.
Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.