Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

I make music for ears, not eyes

The end of the world can be cozy at times.

dare to be different

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Every day I play golf, that's my goal. To break 70 the other way. To shoot 70 or better.

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

Our economy is on the move and we are creating thousands of new jobs, but we need to keep our foot on the gas pedal.

Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.