Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.

Such is the audacity of man that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature yea and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

I think the destructive vicious negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.

I really like all music but mostly Country older R&B and the good classic rock.