One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong it creates world history. If it is weak it suffers world history.

If a race has no history if it has no worthwhile tradition it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

President Obama stands ready to work with everyone because that's what the American people expect and deserve - not for the short term political advantages but the long term health of our country. We don't spend time trying to figure out what's in the minds of Republicans we try to keep our focus on the American people.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in that he is to be loved and called upon and to be heard in all things.

God is even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.