"Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence...but I doubt it."

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Source : "Sam Houston". Book by James L. Haley, p. 397, 2004.

Sam Houston

#Brother Quotes #Husband Quotes #War Quotes

“It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.”
“Beauty is our business.”
“Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome superhero.”
“I was an opening act for 10 years.”
“The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I don't join or leave things lightly.”

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