Revolutions never go backward.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living. In a few minutes we’ll be worrying about names for the children.

For me, being a girlboss is about being the boss of your own life. At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

I like silly stuff, too. I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

Reading is very good. And you can quote me!