South Quotes

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

South Africa needs a second liberation.

Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

I'm taking my talents to South Beach.