The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

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.

Revolutions never go backward.

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.

You can read her mind only if she lets you. She will let you only if she loves you.

Our state of mind, our state of being, and our outlook on life is contagious.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.

Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.