What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

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.

You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious."-

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

The fact is, almost every move of God is, in some ways, profoundly different from the previous ways that He has moved.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.