I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.