They say somebody’s ‘street smart.’ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.
I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.
Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.
When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.
I may look fake but I’m real where it counts.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.
However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.
I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.
The winning of war – the effectiveness in such things – is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America.
To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.
Either these – unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.