Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals. – Jesse Helms
I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family. – Jesse Helms
Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education. – Jesse Helms
I have tried at every point to seek Gods wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him. – Jesse Helms
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Nobel Prize lecture, 11 December 1968
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own…. It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism. – James Gleick, 1993