There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

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.

Emotions can lead you to culmination of success sometimes it leads you to nadir of failure

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

Don't be too full of yourself because of how people hail you. When your head is swelling, it means there is more empty space to fill in there!

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

I think that's the coolest thing about our fans, they not only respect, but they demand, excellence from our guys.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

Scandal is only human.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?