While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

Stay hopeful.

We ought to courageously live life

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else’s definition of beautiful and started being my own.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Its nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.