The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Knowledge never grows old

Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

Movie logistics never really allow you to do anything but shoot the way the budget dictates.

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.