I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Share too much and someone can hurt you.

Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts.

Never, ever, ever give 100% in anything you do. . . Always give more!

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.