I am a moderately good singer. I am not a great singer but I can interpret a song, which I don't think is quite the same as singing it.
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
We can enjoy Heaven now. We can have half of the enjoyment ahead of time by looking forward to it, thinking about it, reading about it and anticipating it.