Pastoral Resources

Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

That government is best which governs least.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'