Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South’s two halves together.

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.

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

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.

I found a word, and carefully placed it next to another. Soon I had a bridge and a life, like no other.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.