Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

No man was ever wise by chance

fight for what you believe in, for if you don't you will be forever fighting against yourself.

I am not the human being that you see. I am the light. In my heart, I feel dances of electromagnetic waves of love and spirit.

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

The Holy Bible is the greatest book.

Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.