How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

The way to resumption is to resume.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

All men are born equally free.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

My blood makes noise. And I’m saying this now, because I have a strange gut feeling that it will be silenced someday soon.

I'm a confident person. I just try to be me. I like to make people laugh, I am a comedienne - so if people find me sexy, that's awesome.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

Writing is a holy chore.

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.