Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.
The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.
The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
George W. Bush made the agreement about when American troops would leave Iraq, not Barack Obama.