Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.

To Live Out The Kingdom Is A Passion For Life

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.