From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Success does not often arrive by miracle or magic but through perseverance and practice.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.