In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: “In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I’m treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, ‘Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’ No,‘” I answered, ’but I served in a company of heroes.
As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.
Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
Oftentimes the fascinating thing is that people who are seen as commanding figures at the moment that they were considered for President and did not run turned out to be treated by history as much more minor figures politically.
I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
No one heals himself by wounding another.
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light...
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature.
The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.