We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated ... there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

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.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Nobody knew him as I did

I have crushes on women all the time.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself.

Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.

Gosh, I love saying Booyakasha! I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying Booyakasha.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.

There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.