If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.... Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I do...n't think it's enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies the body of William Jones Who all his life collected bones,... Till Death, that grim and boney spectre, That universal bone collector, Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy, And here he lies, all bona fide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same South, he the son of a clergyman, I... the son of a farmer. We both knew from opposite sides, the invisible wall of racial segregation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think those Southern writers [William Faulkner, Carson McCullers] have analyzed very carefully the buildup in the South of a spe...cial consciousness brought about by the self- condemnation resulting from slavery, the humiliation following the War Between the States and the hope, sometimes expressed timidly, for redemption.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it ...as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Touchstone. Art rich? William. Faith, sir, so, so.... Touchstone. "So, so" is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not, it is but so, so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do ...this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his gener...ation and one of the biggest political men of our country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maggio: Just hate to see a good guy get it in the gut. Corporal Buckley: You'd better get used to it, kid. You'll probably se...e a lot of it before you die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And William had dudgeon for the sightless beadle Who worshipped a God like a grandmother on ice-skates,... For William saw two angels on the point of a needle As nobody since except W. B. Yeats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »