There is no social life outside of Christendom.

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.

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.

Love, love, love, says Percy.And hurry as fast as you canalong the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.Then, go to sleep.Give up your body heat, your beating heart.Then, trust.

I wouldn't be where I am without my fans, and I am very thankful for them.

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.