104 Quotes by Dan Groat

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain’s machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the lubricant for the soul.

Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

The power of our country relies on the character that comes out of each of our homes.

There is a silent deference for one another, a distance that is kept, and lines that aren’t crossed, but in their sharing, they each try to pay tribute to the bond in their own way. As often as possible, they open up a little and give what they can.

Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think things were about as close to fine as they ever got right then during those times. In the woods. No parents. No yelling.

I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.