A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

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.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

The only way to be happy is to prepare your mind to be happy.

It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader.

You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.

You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.