It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Life's true face is the skull.

To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.