I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.
I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!
You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.