The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.

I think the greatest sound in the world is hearing one of your children singing when they think no one is listening.

We all must deal with our shadows the best we can. No one can conquer them for us.

All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would.

I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five- this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16…but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.

I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.