It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Ronald Reagan

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Mark Twain

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
Winston Churchill

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
C. S. Lewis

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
C. S. Lewis