Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

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.

Once you are clear with the process of input-output and its consequence, you become more careful with every choice and decisions with your life.

It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

I have the greatest fans in the world. I love them.. All of them, I really do.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.