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

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.

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.

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.

That’s literally one of those things where if I tell you I have to kill you. A witch’s wand is a powerful tool and could be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands.

The city's all brightnessand shadow, deckle-edged, bluer than air-there's no help anywhere-you no longer know how to listen.

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

Now to act with integrity, according to that strength of mind and body with which our creator hath endowed each of use, appears necessary for all.

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

It is bad enough to reinvent the wheel. What really hurts is when they reinvent the flat tire.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.