“Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.” IfsMenCountryNextSimpleHabitKillingDeterminedProtectionKill MeAssassination Author:William Herndon
“Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.” PersonsCountryTogetherChoicesSimpleSacrificeAccomplishmentReachingDividesReach OutOur ChoicesVolunteerismSacrifice For Others Author:George H. W. Bush
“On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.” WayIdeasCountryLightNaturalSimplePowerfulCitiesVirtueIgnoranceCommunicationAmbitionFundamentalsNoiseLimitationInnocenceAssociationContrastCentreHostileWorldliness Book:The Country and the City Source: The Country and the City
“Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.” HeartRealSelfCountryHomeFatherSimpleGreatnessHumilityCrossesFar AwayIndifferentInner LifeMagnificence Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton
“Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.” CountryAgeHumanitySimpleSharePoetCourtInheritanceBeing ThankfulExcludedGreat Poet Book:The North American Review Source: The North American Review
“Now I love to feel that warm southern rain, Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing. And to see it fall on your simple country dress It's like heaven to me I must confess.” FeelsCountryFallHeavenSimpleRainDressesWarmSouthernSweetest Author:Ben Harper
“Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.” PeopleIfsWantLooksCountryPlayTodayLyingFightingWinningSimpleEffortHalfMillionsImpossibleExerciseBattleMajorsPercentGunTasksResponsibleCommittedHouseholdOwnershipItemsRestrictionUphill BattlesGun Ownership Author:Dave Kopel
“[The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.” PeopleMeanCountryDoneSpiritualLawJesusChristBornHurtPrayerSimpleDecisionMillionsFiveMinutesChangedJesus ChristSinnerCultFive MinutesHeresyBorn AgainMethodology Author:Paul Washer