Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

You have a life make a success of it.

Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted

Imagination is the voice of the daring.

Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.