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

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.

Courage cannot be unveiled without reality

I try to avoid teaming up with goddesses who eat roadkill. It's one of my personal boundaries.

What ever truth drops on it eventually grinds to a powder.

Don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine

What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.

I was never meant to be this thing.

All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.