Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?
Even at church, people would not shake my hand.
People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.
I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.
The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.
Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.
That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.
I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.
Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.