I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.

No man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

I walk the darkness with a smile.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

He sparked on his body that reflect like mini mirrors of diamond

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.