Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.
I wonder why he shot me ?
God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.
I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.
I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites. ' And they learned.
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played
Trials may come - and we may not understand everything that happens to us or around us. But if we humbly, quietly trust in the Lord, He will give us guidance and strength in every challenge we face. When our only desire is to please Him, we will be blessed with a deep inner peace.
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove. . .
I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.