I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

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.

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.