Is everything right because the law allows it?

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Time resumed. Time had a way of doing that.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."