No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.

I feel betrayed by own mother.

There’s no one in Israel who appreciates more than me the importance of American support for Israel.

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

Things that I would say or would like to saw are just easier to sing about and put out there in music.

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).

Hollywood is something imagined ...acting is something crafted.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day.