They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

The day the army of Virginia allows a negro regiment to enter their lines as soldiers they will be degraded, ruined, and disgraced.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

Smile to enjoy the beauties of life.

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing