Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

We are inspired by divine power to write.

Justice is the cardinal virtue of peace.

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

God is to me that creative Force behind and in the universe who manifests Himself as energy as life as order as beauty as thought as conscience as love.

If God is a crutch, then atheism is a coma.

whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!

Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.