We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.

You can't start a movement, but you can prepare for one