I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

If we do not desire to work in order to receive these things, God will be powerless to help us

Loneliness is the worst pain that human can go through specially the period time when technology that is design to keep people away from each other and that period is now (21-Century).

There was too much at stake for him not to attempt it! He had to win! And he had to win big!

It was a quiet taunt...a poisoned glass of wine, meant to intoxicate and exsanguinate.

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.

Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find.