I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more. ↗
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ↗
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. ↗
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. ↗
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam. ↗