The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Men acquiesce in a thousand things, once righteously and boldly done, to which, if proposed to them in advance, they might find endless objections.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

I was particularly anxious that I shoot the tires out of the class system. All it is these days is a hobby of certain masochists, and certain sadists.