But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

Revolutions never go backward.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.

Just because a chicken was born in the oven doesn't make it a biscuit.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.