But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

Revolutions never go backward.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

But that is what life is all about, he said. "It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them?

If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.

I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.